At the new “Manet/Degas” show at the Met, I went on a white dérive, following white paint, whiteness, and white supremacy. I saw Manet trying to shift white sight from the absolutism of slavery to a republican imperial-racial hierarchy of the “civilizing mission," via his creation of the Young-White-Woman.
White Manet
White Manet
White Manet
At the new “Manet/Degas” show at the Met, I went on a white dérive, following white paint, whiteness, and white supremacy. I saw Manet trying to shift white sight from the absolutism of slavery to a republican imperial-racial hierarchy of the “civilizing mission," via his creation of the Young-White-Woman.