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Eugène Delacroix | Ovid among the Scythians | 1862
Oil on paper, laid down on wood | 32.1 x 50.2 [cm] | MMA NYC | source |
Author: bill
Beaker with a checkerboard design
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Beaker with a checkerboard design | Chalcolithic | ca. early to mid-4th millennium B.C. | Iran, Susa
Ceramic | 20 × 18.4 × 18.4 [ cm ] | MMA NY | source |
Titian : poesie
Titian : a series of mythological paintings classified by the term “poesie” intended for King Philip II of Spain taking subjects from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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Danaë, delivered to Philip in 1553, now Wellington Collection |
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Venus and Adonis, delivered 1554, Museo del Prado |
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Perseus and Andromeda, c. 1554–1556, Wallace Collection |
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Diana and Actaeon, 1556–1559, London’s National Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh |
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Diana and Callisto, 1556–1559, London’s National Gallery and the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh |
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The Rape of Europa, c. 1560–1562, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
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The Death of Actaeon, c. 1559-1575, never delivered, National Gallery London |
Perseus and Andromeda
Zuihō-in
Falconing Prince
The Bull-Leaping Fresco
Degrowth
…. We can take this observation one step further. It is important to recognize that the word ‘growth’ has
become a kind of propaganda term. In reality, what is going on is a process of elite accumulation, the
commodification of commons, and the appropriation of human labour and natural resources — a process
that is quite often colonial in character. This process, which is generally destructive to human commu-
nities and to ecology, is glossed as growth. Growth sounds natural and positive (who could possibly be
against growth?) so people are easily persuaded to buy into it, and to back policies that will generate more
of it, when otherwise they might not. Growth is the ideology of capitalism, in the Gramscian sense. It is
the core tenet of capitalism’s cultural hegemony. The word degrowth is powerful and effective because it
identifies this trick, and rejects it. Degrowth calls for the reversal of the processes that lie behind growth: it
calls for disaccumulation, decommodification, and decolonization.
Jason Hickel | @jasonhickel
Pissarro / Cézanne
Galois / Hermite
Ine, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Ine, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Ine, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
rig pa rang shar
Tibetan Buddhist Iconometry
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Iconometry of the buddha body of emmanation according to the Tantra of the Emergence of Cakrasaṃvara (scale :120 sor) |
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Iconometry of the standing bodhisattva Mahākāruṇika |
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Iconometry of Vajrabhairava |
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Iconometry of the wrathful Cakrasaṃvara (scale: 125 sor) |
All images from The Treasury of Knowledge : Indo-Tibetan Classical Learning & Buddhist Phenomenology by Jamgön Kongtrul |