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Geisha Hikizuri Kimono - Japan - Late Meiji (1880-1911)

A soft chirimen-silk Geisha formal antique kimono hikizuri featuring a fleet of auspicious treasure ships: 15 on the outside and another nine ships on the inside. Yuzen-dyeing, with embroidery highlights and gold foil outlining.

#fashion history

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The Knight (2023)/Sasha Gordon

#art #gordon

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— Warsan Shire, crude conversations with boys who fake laughter often

#shire #lit #quote #poetry

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[Image ID: The poem “One Source of Bad Information”, by Robert Bly.  There’s a boy in you about three years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty Thousand Years. Sometime it’s a girl.  The child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like:  “Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.”  You live with this child, but you don’t know it.  You’re in the office, yes, but live with this boy  At night. He’s uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy  You survived a lot. He’s got six big ideas.  Five don’t work. Right now he’s repeating them to you. 

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#poetry #bly #lit #quote

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Erzsébet Korb ((Hungarian, 1899–1925), circa 1921

#korb #art #st sebastian

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John Currin, Caryatid, 2021, oil on canvas, 50 x 34 in

#currin #art

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UNIDENTIFIED WOLASTOQIYIK (MALISEET) ARTIST

BEADED CEREMONIAL SHIRT COLLAR, C. 1860

black velveteen, glass beads, metal beads, silk, and cotton thread, 13.5 x 9.5 x 0.25 in (34.3 x 24.1 x 0.6 cm)

unsigned;

elaborately decorated with beaded appliqué of vining florals.

FirstArts

#art #we cast our eyes upon them

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Pavel Svedomsky (Russian, 1849-1904)

Two Romans With a Tambourine and Flute

#svedomsky #art

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The Face of Another (1996) Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara

#teshigahara #film

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“Gaza is not the most beautiful of cities. Her coast is not bluer than those of other Arab cities. Her oranges are not the best in the Mediterranean. Gaza is not the richest of cities. (Fish and oranges and sand and tents forsaken by the winds, smuggled goods and hands for hire.) And Gaza is not the most polished of cities, or the largest. But she is equivalent to the history of a nation, because she is the most repulsive among us in the eyes of the enemy – the poorest, the most desperate, and the most ferocious. Because she is a nightmare. Because she is oranges that explode, children without a childhood, aged men without an old age, and women without desire. Because she is all that, she is the most beautiful among us, the purest, the richest, and most worthy of love.”

— Journal of an Ordinary Grief - Mahmoud Darwish

#lit #darwish #quote

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Still-Life: Coffee and Potatoes, 1897 by Albert Anker (Swiss, 1831–1910)

#anker #art

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Tori McCandless, from "Post-Glacial"

#mccandless #lit #quote

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>see dumb opinion

>check user's location

>omelas

#lit #humor #le guin

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Conversation with a Native Son: Maya Angelou and James Baldwin

#baldwin #lit #quote #beauty incarnate #angelou

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James Baldwin and Bob Dylan, December 13, 1963.

#lit #baldwin #dylan #beauty incarnate

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here's James Baldwin summing up Palestine in 1979

#baldwin #lit #quote

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“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. It means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Brönte’s Jane Eyre: “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.””

— Adrienne Rich, “Claiming an Education” (1977), On Lies, Secrets, and Silence (via sadladypoetssociety)

#quote #lit #rich