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Ex-mandarins demand 'colonial-era' paintings are removed from 'elitist' Foreign Office to avoid offending visiting diplomats under a major rebrand of a department 'rooted in the past' ...
There’s a specific gaze that accompanied orientalist artists, a fascination laced with condescension. 'They exoticise, they mysticise, they romanticise,' said DAG's Giles Tillotson.
McIntosh — who has been dealing with the colonial era and racism in her art for almost 10 years — hopes her works will sharpen people's view of the colonial past and create more awareness of ...
The drawings were dated to between 1670 CE and 1830 CE, a period when the local Bidayuh people used the cave as refuge from territorial violence, much of it by Malay elites who controlled the region.
In 2022, the Yenas sold more than 400 Spanish colonial-era artifacts to the Alamo and donated six large paintings, including a depiction of the 1836 battle. Yena’s paintings and many of the ...
The two pieces were returned as part of the museum’s colonial-era provenance program which looks to identify artifacts that ...
Malaysian Cave Art May Depict Colonial-Era Violence Newly deciphered drawings in the Gua Sireh Cave show the Bidayuh Indigenous people’s violent struggle against their oppressors, researchers say.
Then, they cleaned the colonial-era paintings with cotton swabs, and retouched the images where necessary. “They all have their own character—they’re not copies,” Pocobene said of the angels.
Home International News Mati Diop On Her Berlin Title ‘Dahomey’ Switching From Fiction To Documentary And Why France Must Do More To Return Looted Colonial-Era Art ...
The colonial era has left its mark on Germany. Cheryl McIntosh explores colonial history and its impact on the present. Street names, monuments and graves of colonial rulers: The colonial era has ...