[arthistoryanimalia]

#Baturday 🦇:

Bat by Fabergé, c. 1900

Carved agate set with demantoid garnet eyes; W 11.2 cm (4 7/16 in.)

Via Bonhams

[hagiomoto]

"The native intellectual, at the beginning of his career, tries to give proof of the fact that he has assimilated the culture of the occupying power... The native intellectual who goes back to his people wears European clothes, and in the way he speaks, in his mannerisms, he shows that he has adopted the very forms of the colonizer. The colonizer is right, he says, the colonizer has conquered and we must take his place. We must prove to him... that we can do as much as he can. The native intellectual, in short, wants to be recognized by the colonizer." — The Wretched of the Earth, Chapter 4: "On National Culture"

[t1ypo]

Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom by Ilya Repin, (1876)

[rosieandthemoon]

Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

[festeredhearts]

[cycutmondie]

[omniivert]

[cycutmondie]

[gothredy]

Out Of The Earth You Came, 1930

Cardwell Higgins (American, 1902 - 1983)

[thelastgoodcountry]

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[morxwar]

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, A Japanese netsuke of a crouching tiger. Bamboo with inlays, mid to late 19th century CE, now housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

[hitrecord]

[mccharmley]

The Beatles in their leather. The detail of the boots was silver; the caps were pink. 

[whoknowswherethetimegoes]

Caryatids, Acropolis, Athens, photographed by Werner Bischof, 1946.

[oniri-que]

Chantal Akerman

[mournfulroses]

Mu Xin, from a poem titled "After The Sleigh Incident," featured in A century of modern Chinese poetry : an anthology