Never forget. Know thy History. The rape of the Negro woman????? For anyone looking to read more in depth critiques of this Christiaen van Couwenbergh painting (actually titled Three White Men With A Negro Woman) & the phenomenon of rape being presented as heroism in art there’s this review on JSTOR of Diane Wolfthal’s Images of Rape: the “heroic” tradition and its alternatives. jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3780968?uid=3739256&sid=21102452663181 The painting is still on display Musée des Beaux-Arts Strasbourg, France and as you see in the JSTOR article has been described in the recent past as intriguing & comical. Personally, I find the difference in the depiction of the white men & the black woman to be about what I’d expect. She’s an object to them & to the viewer with very little attention paid to the details of her face. The men are the important people in the tableau after all. They’re having fun, and whatever has happened to her or is about to happen to her isn’t at all important as long as they enjoyed their bit of sport. This wasn’t rape by their sights since she couldn’t be raped. Anyone who wants to say this long over & no one thinks this way anymore should spend more time outside & less time with their head up their..... — with Nicki Minaj and 8 others.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:33:57 +0000
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