Ay-leen the Peacemaker's Blog – March 2010 Archive (6)

Beyond Victoriana #20 Charles Frederick Goldie and his Maori Portraits

Ena Te Papatahi - A Chieftainess of the Ngapuhi Tribe. Image courtesy of museumsyndicate.com

Charles Frederick Goldie has been called one of New Zealand’s greatest artists and one of the most controversial. He was born in Auckland in 1870. Rejecting the art movements of…

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Added by Ay-leen the Peacemaker on March 29, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Beyond Victoriana Special Edition: Odds & Ends #3

I'll be at ICON in Long Island this weekend and so I'll be leaving a few tidbits for you to munch on while I'm out (by the way, my con schedule is easily traceable).

Read on at BeyondVictoriana.com

Added by Ay-leen the Peacemaker on March 25, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Beyond Victoriana #19: Lalla Essaydi Speaking Through the Exotic

Image courtesy of http://artknowledgenews.com/

“In my art, I wish to present myself through multiple lenses—as artist, as Moroccan, as Saudi, as traditionalist, as Liberal, as Muslim. In short, I invite the…

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Added by Ay-leen the Peacemaker on March 21, 2010 at 7:30am — 4 Comments

Beyond Victoriana double-post!

Beyond Victoriana #17.5: Steampunk and Victorientalism Assessed

The past week has been a flurry of conversation about the use and meaning of "Victorientalism". As part of this discussion, I wanted to highlight the various opinions expressed over this issue.

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Beyond Victoriana #18: Transcultural Tradition of the Vietnamese Ao Dai

(aka "How I Steampunk")

Conversations about cross-cultural fashion in… Continue

Added by Ay-leen the Peacemaker on March 14, 2010 at 8:49am — No Comments

Update your Bookmarks! Beyond Victoriana is moving!

For awhile, I've been thinking about how I spend my time in conducting Beyond Victoriana. It has grown, rather quickly, from an interesting side project to a more serious venture, in part thanks to the readers responses and because of my own growing fascinating with all steampunk as a form of creative expression and as a subculture community.

My main series host Dreamwidth--as great of a service this has been--is not very conductive to scheduled postings, and it's also hard to… Continue

Added by Ay-leen the Peacemaker on March 13, 2010 at 10:28am — No Comments

Beyond Victoriana #17: The Semantics of Words & the Antics of Fashion: Addressing "Victorientalism"

Jaymee and I had a discussion the other day triggered by the use of the word "Victorientalism" (also spelled "Vicorientalism") in the steampunk community and whether it is an appropriate description of the transcultural blend of Eastern and Western fashion. I had my first (rather angry) rant about Orientialism sometime around this time last year, and now would be apt… Continue

Added by Ay-leen the Peacemaker on March 7, 2010 at 6:30pm — No Comments