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...Rosemary Laing. The image fatigue some critics have complained about in recent times has been as much to do with the overexposure of some of these aptly acclaimed artists' work as with the explosive growth of the medium. So to enter "Light Sensitive: Contemporary Australian Photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund"-which comprises 65 works by 38 artists, assiduously collected by NGV senior curator Isobel Crombie in conjunction with the prominent Melbourne benefactor-is to see Australian photography afresh...
...Danish wife Mette and their five children back in Copenhagen, never to see them again. Tahiti would break his heart, of course. What he knew of the island was built mostly out of visits to the Paris World's Fair and from the romantic fabrications of the novelist Pierre Loti. By the time Gauguin made the first of his two voyages, in 1891, the native culture he hoped to find had been dressed, churched and adulterated by colonial administrators and Christian missionaries...
...fact, as could be expected, some Westerners were dismayed by all this defensive mimicry and lamented the destruction of older Japanese traditions. Others tittered at the earnest efforts to be civilized in the Western manner. Pierre Loti, the French author of Madame Chrysanthemum, likened the Deer Cry Pavilion to a second-rate casino in a French hot-springs resort, and the dancing, well: "They danced quite properly, my Japanese in Parisian gowns. But one senses that it is something drilled into them, that they perform like automatons, without any personal initiative. If by chance they lose the beat, they have...
...tree roots; its temple mountains and crumbling pine-cone spires. Spreading over some 150 sq. mi., it has excited dithyrambs from visitors ever since the French started going there in the 19th century. "I looked up at those towers rising above me, overgrown with greenery," wrote the novelist Pierre Loti in 1912, "and I suddenly shivered with fear as I saw a giant frozen smile looming down at me.. and then another smile, over there on another tower...and then three, and then five, and then...
Capitalizing on the rage for things Oriental that had also seized writers such as Pierre Loti and Gustave Flaubert and scholars like Sir Richard Burton, the Orientalist artists vied with one another in seeking out exotica. Harems aside, the subjects that most mesmerized them were slave markets, carpet bazaars, whirling dervishes, Arab stallions, caravans of caparisoned camels and wind-whipped burnooses of Bedouins on the sands of the Sahara. "There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture...