"Taking A Magnifying Glass To The Brown Faces..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 12 May 2018 11:50 a.m. PST |
… In Medieval Art. "The Tumblr sounds a bit like a college course: People of Color in European Art History. And its goal is pretty ambitious. The blog's author, Malisha Dewalt, says that her goal is to challenge the common perception that pre-Enlightenment Europe was all white, which she argues is a much more recent and deliberate invention. "All too often, these works go unseen in museums, Art History classes, online galleries, and other venues because of retroactive whitewashing of Medieval Europe, Scandinavia, and Asia," she writes. "[T]his blog is here to emphasize the modern racism that retroactively erases gigantic swaths of truth and beauty."…"
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| goragrad | 12 May 2018 10:14 p.m. PST |
Rather interesting at the first link. However, at the site linked there they seem to just be another race and diversity obsessed revisionist. Pity, it would be of interest to see some solid research on the matter. Contrary to that site, there seems to be quite a bit diversity being pushed in media today and it would be good to see some backing for it. |
| Tango01 | 13 May 2018 3:10 p.m. PST |
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| goragrad | 14 May 2018 4:57 p.m. PST |
On a further note, one wonders if sub-Saharan Africans were as common as the articles subject wishes to believe, why when Angelo Soliman (I believe you posted on him originally, Tango) died that the director of the Imperial Natural History Collection in Vienna requested that he be skinned and stuffed for exhibit. Something that one would expect to be done in the case of an 'exotic' rather than normally encountered personage. Vienna being one of the more cosmopolitan cities in Europe with its location reasonably close to the border with the Ottomans with their armies recruited in Africa among other regions. P.S. One has to wonder if the Greek black on red pottery figures in their collection? |
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