Pet politics.

Cat Playing with Two Dogs
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Paulus Potter
"Several elements in the picture suggest a political reading in which the dogs parody declining Spanish power and the cat stands for the strength of Dutch nationhood".

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)

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Explore questions about masculinity, labor, and nationhood in Dutch and American prints from the collection in "Macho Men," now on view. https://t.co/k8cIcsONlU

"Workman Pushing Four Bundles," around 1936–41 by Isadore Possoff.

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Independence Day(July 4th) in the United States, the annual celebration of nationhood. It commemorates the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

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& this Friday (24th) Derbyshire, 6.30pm-7.30pm. Where Chris Brooks looks at changing notions of nationhood, identity and the power of place with his photobook, 'The Brooks Press of Wirksworth' https://t.co/p6VS8BrIJ4
Xhib follows.

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My other job for this evening is finishing off my paper for , 'Material Nationhood: Britannia, Patriotism, and Small Things, 1707-1837'. So many diddy little Britannias!

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over unity over disunity, nationhood over tribalism, black love or xenophobia.

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