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Here's one I'm fond of from The Hyde Collection upstate, though it's European appropriation / colonialism etc--yet it's beautiful and affectionate I think. By Rubens.
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PS I believe it's the right of artists to appropriate anything they please. But I never say this. Wouldn't be wise. As for colonialism: Edward Said loved (LOVED) Kipling. Esp KIM. AND Conrad. So we shan't blame the artists. Said's finding of complicity never diminished their work
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Btw this one movement of Parsifal I heard early yesterday a.m. was the first Wagner I've ever heard that I even minimally enjoyed. So I've been safe on Wagner until now.
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