#American Elegance

[crownedstoat]

Buick

[crownedstoat]

Cadillac

A blog filled with vintage cars, hot rods, and kustoms

[arc-hus]

Desert Palisades House, Palm Springs, USA - Woods + Dangaran

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: American Saddlebred

Height: 15-17 hh

Common coat colors: Bay, grey, various roans, palomino and pinto

Place of origin: US

[the-minesweeper-god]

"I lost the money, lost the keys, but I'm still handcuffed to the briefcase."

American Sports by Arctic Monkeys

[crownedstoat]

Cadillac

[mrskennedy]

Jackie Kennedy

1950s

[joannkennedy]

Joan Kennedy photographed making calls from Hyannis Port on Election night, 1960.

[automotivealchemy]

Dodge Viper SRT-E All Electric Supercar Concept

[crownedstoat]

Classic Cadillac

[portrait-paintings]

Self-Portrait

Artist: Archibald John Motley Jr. (American, 1891–1981)

Date: c. 1920

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Description

Chicagoan Archibald Motley attended the School of the Art Institute at a time when many prominent art academies denied entrance to African American students. His affiliation with the school was thus of great significance to him. Around 1920, as a recent graduate, he painted a self-portrait meant to introduce him as a poised young artist, elegantly presenting himself in a dark suit jacket, crisp white shirt, and a dark tie accented by a diamond horseshoe pin. Furthermore, Motley painted this work following race riots in July 1919, which had heightened tensions in Chicago. The violence convinced him that he should use his art to influence perceptions of African Americans in a positive manner. This sophisticated self-portrait is thus an extraordinary declaration of his goals and ambitions.

[crownedstoat]

1931 Lincoln Model K LeBaron Convertible Roadster

[leeradziwilll]

Princess Lee Radziwill

[crownedstoat]

The future is now!

A blog filled with vintage cars, hot rods, and kustoms

[carolynbkennedy]

[child-of-hurin]

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I DO get this post and I think many interesting things HAVE BEEN done with this concept, and it can be explored,

but there is something so fundamentally western about this post because cannibalism was and is one of the top 3 excuses for colonialism!! The very real and varied forms of exocannibalism and endocannibalism practices by the natives of the Americas was, and still is, the easiest route to dehumanize them and justify the atrocities committed against them!

Cannibalism is a powerful western taboo and I get the appeal of using it as a metaphor to talk about other taboos, and I do think such an approach could be done successfully and with nuance, and maybe I'm being unfair to a one-sentence post -- but oh the way this comes across in the context of the actual, real life history! The inescapability of discussing colonialism always on the moral playing field of the colonizers! What does signalizing the monstrosity of colonialism through cannibalism say about the colonized who ate, indeed, the flesh of other men?