The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
rendered into english verse by Edward Fitzgerald
Hodder & Stoughton
1913
Artist : Rene Bull
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An Arabian in the Desert, Charles-Philogène Tschaggeny, 1858
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it's almost like global south's reality is some sort of aesthetic concept for white people.
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Francesc Masriera i Manovens (Spanish, 1842-1902)
Salomé
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Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895)
"Juive de Tanger" ("Jewish woman from Tangier") (1874)
Oil on panel
Orientalism
Currently in a private collection
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"We see simultaneously both the fortification of normative heterosexual coupling and the propagation of sexualities that mimic, parallel, contradict, or resist this normativity. These proliferating sexualities, and their explicit and implicit relationships to nationalism, complicate the dichotomous implications of casting the nation as only supportive and productive of heteronormativity and always repressive and disallowing of homosexuality. I argue that the Orientalist invocation of the terrorist is one discursive tactic that disaggregates U.S. national gays and queers from racial and sexual others, foregrounding a collusion between homosexuality and American nationalism that is generated both by national rhetorics of patriotic inclusion and by gay and queer subjects themselves: homonationalism. For contemporary forms of U.S. nationalism and patriotism, the production of gay and queer bodies is crucial to the deployment of nationalism, insofar as these perverse bodies reiterate heterosexuality as the norm but also because certain domesticated homosexual bodies provide ammunition to reinforce nationalist projects."
Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)
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Jenny Nyström (Swedish, 1854-1946): Couple under a parasol (via Bukowskis)
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Morrowind: Uupse Fyr, fourth wife of Lord-Wizard Divayth Fyr, enjoys skooma pipe with apples and shalk resin.
P.S. That is, wife-clone-daughter-benign corprus tumor.
P.P.S. Moon sugar+apples+shalk resin makes a "fortify speed" potion.
Digital painting. Made in Krita (5.1.5).
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John Frederick Lewis (English, 1804-1876)
A Young Turkish Woman
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Hollywood loves Arab cultures but not Arab people
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