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29 Jun 2020

Notes on the Sex Appeal of Belly Dancing (With Reference to the Case of Johara)

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Ekaterina Andreeva (aka Johara) Seems like a nice girl ... I have to admit that, unlike Flaubert, I'm not a great fan of Easter...
17 Feb 2020

Reflections on Madam Butterfly 1: The Opera

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Poster for Madama Butterfly (1904)  by Adolfo Hohenstein Puccini's Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala 116 years ago to...
4 Apr 2017

Cut it Out - Reflections on Blue Nudes and Racial Fetishism in the Work of Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse: Nu bleu IV (1952) The Blue Nudes are a series of painted female figure cut-outs stuck to paper and then mounted ...
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