#orientalism

[eirene]

An Eastern Lily, 1885

Edwin Long

[namedvesta]

Antonio Frilli, “Sweet Dreams”, Marble sculpture (𝟣𝟪𝟫𝟤).

[the-evil-clergyman]

Odalisque by Delphin Enjolras (19th Century)

[itznarcotic]

[emptyportrait]

it's almost like global south's reality is some sort of aesthetic concept for white people.

[die-rosastrasse]

Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

The Belly Dancer (details)

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895) "Juive de Tanger" ("Jewish woman from Tangier") (1874) Oil on panel Orientalism Currently in a private collection

[beatricecenci]

Francesc Masriera i Manovens (Spanish, 1842-1902)

Salomé

[weirdlookindog]

Georges Jules Victor Clairin (1843-1919) - La Grande Vague (The Great Wave), 1898

[pen-and-umbra]

La Japonaise, by Emile Villa

[eirene]

An Oriental Beauty

Charles Dubreuil

[lionofchaeronea]

African Holding a Horse at the Edge of a Sea, Alfred de Dreux (1810-1860)

[the-evil-clergyman]

Odalisques by Henri Adrien Tanoux (1905)

[lepetitdragonvert]

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

rendered into english verse by Edward Fitzgerald

Hodder & Stoughton

1913

Artist : Rene Bull

[taliabhattwrites]

I wonder if folks realize just how much of modern queer discourse and academic feminism is rooted in theories promulgated by the most rancid transmisogynists to have existed.

From the International Journal of Psychoanalysis:

From chapter seven of Whipping Girl:

Similar to how the most-cited work on the hijra repeatedly misgenders them as "male homosexuals" and confidently declares that the hijra are "too vulgar" to be women, unlike Docile Submissive Well-Behaved Indian Females, so much of queer theory is uncoupled from materialism, from robust feminist analysis, and from the empirical reality of transsexual women's oppression.

Let's leave these blighted pages where they belong, please.