Author: medusian

There are two oft-cited works in the ‘field’ of anti-racism; one that stands at the conceptual beginning and one towards the end. I must admit that given the dissemination of concepts laid out in these two works and the ease with which these concepts have permeated and become accepted as unquestionable truth across western media,…

With reference to Mary Beard’s comments regarding Praxiteles’ ‘Aphrodite’ aired within episode two of the BBC series, Civilisations. Initially, Mary references this bronze statue (below, ‘The Boxer At Rest’)… … by saying It’s the incisive brilliance of sculptures like the boxer that gives the impression that the Greek revolution was an unalloyed triumph of artistic…