The Imaginary Orient
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The Imaginary Orient
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Author : Stefan Koppelkamm
language : en
Publisher: Axel Menges
Release Date : 2015
The Imaginary Orient written by Stefan Koppelkamm and has been published by Axel Menges this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Architecture categories.
In the 18th century the idea of the landscape garden, which had originated in England, spread all over Europe. The geometry of the Baroque park was abandoned in favour of a 'natural' design. At the same time the garden became "The land of illusion": Chinese pagodas, Egyptian tombs, and Turkish mosques, along with Gothic stables and Greek and Roman temples, formed a miniature world in which distance mingled with the past. The keen interest in a fairy-tale China, which was manifested not only in the gardens but also in the chinoiseries of the Rococo, abated in the 19th century. The increasing expansion of the European colonial powers was reflected in new exotic fashions. While in England it was primarily the conquest of the Indian subcontinent that captured the imagination, for France the occupation of Algiers triggered an Orient-inspired fashion that spread from Paris to encompass the entire Continent, and found its expression in paintings, novels, operas, and buildings. This 'Orient', which could not be clearly defined geographically, was characterised by Islamic culture: It extended around the Mediterranean Sea from Constantinople to Granada. There, it was the Alhambra that fascinated writers and architects. The Islamic styles seemed especially appropriate for "buildings of a secular and cheerful character". In contrast to ancient Egyptian building forms, which, being severe and monumental, were preferably used for cemetery buildings, prisons or libraries, they promised earthly sensuous pleasures. The promise of happiness associated with an Orient staged by architectural means was intended to guarantee the commercial success of coffee houses and music halls, amusement parks, and steam baths. But even extravagant summer residences and middle-class villas were often built in faux-Oriental styles: In Brighton, the Prince Regent George (George IV after 1820) built himself an Indian palace; in Bad Cannstatt near Stuttgart, a 'Moorish' refuge was erected for Württemberg's King Wilhelm I; and the French town of Tourcoing was the site of the Palais du Congo, a bombastic villa in the Indian Moghul style that belonged to a wealthy perfume and soap manufacturer.
The Politics Of Vision
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Author : Linda Nochlin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-12
The Politics Of Vision written by Linda Nochlin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-12 with Art categories.
A leading critic and historian of nineteenth-century art and society explores in nine essays the interaction of art, society, ideas, and politics.
The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader
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Author : Vanessa R. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader written by Vanessa R. Schwartz and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Art categories.
The nineteenth century is central to contemporary discussions of visual culture. This reader brings together key writings on the period, exploring such topics as photographs, exhibitions and advertising.
Beyond The Orientalist Canon
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Author : Fanna S. Gebreyesus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Beyond The Orientalist Canon written by Fanna S. Gebreyesus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Orientalism in art categories.
This thesis re-examines Jean-Leon Gerome's iconic painting The Snake Charmer (1879) in an attempt to move beyond the post-colonial interpretations that have held sway in the literature on the artist since the publication of Linda Nochlin's influential essay "The Imaginary Orient" in 1989. The painting traditionally is understood as both a product and reflection of nineteenth-century European colonial politics, a view that positions the depicted figures as racially, ethnically and nationally "other" to the "Western" viewers who encountered the work. My analysis does not dispute but rather extends and complicates this approach. First, I place the work in the context of the artist's oeuvre, specifically in relation to the initiation of Gerome's sculptural practice in 1878. I interpret the figure of the nude snake charmer as a reference to the artist's virtuoso abilities in both painting and sculpture. Second, I discuss the commercial success that Gerome achieved through his popular Orientalist works. Rather than simply catering to the market for Orientalist scenes, I argue that this painting makes sophisticated commentary on its relation to that market; the performance depicted in the work functions as an allegory of the painting's reception. Finally, I discuss the display of this painting at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, in an environment of spectacle that included the famous "Oriental" pavilions meant to dazzle and shock visitors. My overall aim in exploring these new ways to consider The Snake Charmer is to encourage alternative ways of discussing Gerome's Orientalist paintings more broadly.
Orientalism
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Author : Edward W. Said
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2014-10-01
Orientalism written by Edward W. Said and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Social Science categories.
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.
The Homoerotics Of Orientalism
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Author : Joseph A. Boone
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-18
The Homoerotics Of Orientalism written by Joseph A. Boone and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
The place of the Middle East in European heterosexual fantasy is well documented in the works of Edward Said and others, yet few have considered the male Anglo-European (and, later, American) writers, artists, travelers, and thinkers compelled to represent what, to their eyes, seemed to be an abundance of erotic relations between men in the Islamicate world. Whether feared or desired, the mere possibility of sexual contact with or between men in the Middle East has covertly underwritten much of the appeal and practice of the enterprise of Orientalism, frequently repeating yet just as often upending its assumed meanings. Traces of this undertow abound in European and Middle Eastern fiction, diaries, travel literature, erotica, ethnography, painting, photography, film, and digital media. Joseph Allen Boone explores these vast representations, linking European art to Middle Eastern sources largely unfamiliar to Western audiences and, in some cases, reproduced in this volume for the first time.
Orientalism And The Jews
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Author : Ivan Davidson Kalmar
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2005
Orientalism And The Jews written by Ivan Davidson Kalmar and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
A fascinating analysis of how Jews fit into scholarly debates about Orientalism.
Gendering Orientalism
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Author : Reina Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1996
Gendering Orientalism written by Reina Lewis and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Art categories.
To what extent did white European women contribute to the imperial cultures of the second half of the nineteenth century?
Three Women Artists
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Author : Amy Von Lintel
language : en
Publisher: American Wests, Sponsored by W
Release Date : 2022
Three Women Artists written by Amy Von Lintel and has been published by American Wests, Sponsored by W this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Art categories.
Offering a fresh perspective on the influence of the American southwest--and particularly West Texas--on the New York art world of the 1950s, Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West aims to establish the significance of itinerant teaching and western travel as a strategic choice for women artists associated with traditional centers of artistic authority and population in the eastern United States. The book is focused on three artists: Elaine de Kooning, Jeanne Reynal, and Louise Nevelson. In their travels to and work in the High Plains, they were inspired to innovate their abstract styles and introduce new critical dialogues through their work. These women traveled west for the same reason artists often travel to new places: they found paid work, markets, patrons, and friends. This Middle American context offers us a "decentered" modernism--demanding that we look beyond our received truths about Abstract Expressionism. Authors Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos demonstrate that these women's New York avant-garde, abstract styles were attractive to Panhandle-area ranchers, bankers, and aspiring art students. Perhaps as importantly, they show that these artists' aesthetics evolved in light of their regional experiences. Offering their work as a supplement and corrective to the frameworks of patriarchal, East Coast ethnocentrism, Von Lintel and Roos make the case for Texas as influential in the national art scene of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Auto Poetica
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Author : Darby Lewes
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2006
Auto Poetica written by Darby Lewes and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
A work of art written about an artist creating a work of art is, in a sense, a novel in which the author is a character. The essays in this collection examine nineteenth-century texts that attempted to merge fiction and reality into a unified whole.