Cultural Appropriation
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Claude Monet and the Kimono
The exhibit in Japan featured people wearing the Kimono in front of a Claude Monet painting, which features his wife who is blonde and white in Kimono. There's this optical dimension of it where people are reproducing a painting that by virtue of having a white French woman wearing a Kimono is arguably already an example of cultural appropriation. And I think this highlights just how hard it is to think through accusations of cultural appropriation now and in the past.
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