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Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography

Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography

Beaulieu, Jill
Roberts, Mary

Paperback

Series: Objects/Histories

Art Criticism & TheoryAsian ArtGeneral Art

ISBN10: 0822328747
ISBN13: 9780822328742
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 6 2002
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
Until now, Orientalist art--exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars--has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions. Focusing on paintings and other representations of North African and Ottoman cultures, by both local artists and westerners, the contributors contend that the stylistic similarities between indigenous and Western Orientalist art mask profound interpretive differences, which, on examination, can reveal a visual language of resistance to colonization. The essays also demonstrate how marginalized voices and viewpoints--especially women's--within Western Orientalism decentered and destabilized colonial authority.

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