“One Way Street”

#magic #witch #bigboobs #bigbreasts #boobs #breasts #caption #cleavage #spellcaster #spellcasting #spell #magicspell #magicaltransformation #magictransformation #tgtransformation #pelviccurtain #satindress #feminization #feminizationcaption #gendertransformation #genderchange #transgender #feminizationtransformation #oriental #orientalfantasy #orientalism #barefoot #barefeet #barefootgirl #barefeetgirl

On the irony of Ashkenazi Jews using "looking European" as a rhetorical weapon against Palestinians [apropos of #Wix's "unlike the Gazans, we look and live like Europeans or Americans,"] meet Esther Schreiber, non-archaeologist with inflated CV and an elaborate cloth headscarf resembling a tea towel (a "tichel")... This one was appointed by Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu to lead the Israel Antiquities Authority. Eliyahu also advanced a bill to create a "Judea and Samaria Heritage Authority" for occupied West Bank, replacing military archaeology officer, with land expropriation powers in Areas A+B+C. Eliyahu said it's "an interim stage until full sovereignty."

https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/116574144415352355

#Palestine #Nakba #archeology #Israel #Apartheid #Orientalism

Illustration by Anne Allen, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres (ca. 1790s).

Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4e3b5132-65d5-4d5b-97a9-6b86f7c96926

#rococo #animals #nature #botanical #orientalism #china #design #architecture #chinoiserie #art #publicdomain

Now I'm gonna journal my thoughts on everything I experienced today and what I learned from it like a classical scholar — except I'll write it the way Orientalists wrote about Muslims, but this time about the empire’s own inhabitants, to troll future archaeologists and historians.

#history #orientalism #ihateyall

"The Petitioner," Osman Hamdi Bey, 19th Century.

Osman Hamdi (1842-1910) was quite a fellow; a museum curator, art expert, archaeologist, writer, and all-around intellectual as well as being an influential painter.

Son of a high-ranking official in the Ottoman Empire, he studied art and art history in Paris, before returning to the Ottoman Empire and serving in various official capacities before being named the director of the Imperial Museum. There he worked to modernize archaeology and prevent the smuggling of artifacts out of the country. And all the time, kept on painting.

His work seems to copy the "orientalism" of European artists, which generates controversy today, as some view it as racist. But his work depicts Ottoman culture and tends to show his subjects (often modeled by family members) in active and intellectual roles. He's now seen as subverting Orientalism for his own purposes.

From the Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul.

#Art #OsmanHamdiBey #OttomanArt #Orientalism #Romanticism