Word: orientalistes
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Edward Said’s assault on orientalist thinking changed the way that societies examine foreign cultures, four experts said last night in memory of the deceased author...
...name is William Granara, and I’m an Orientalist,” he said last night to the packed crowd at the Sackler Museum Lecture Hall...
...volunteered and was killed in combat in the Franco-Prussian War. Frédéric Bazille (Oct. 1-Jan. 18) is the first retrospective of his brief career to appear in Paris since 1950. With such accomplished paintings as the big, crystalline Family Reunion and the sensuous, almost Orientalist, La Toilette this small show makes clear how much extraordinary promise was lost with Bazille's early death. Jean Cocteau was a jack-of-all-trades - poet, playwright, novelist, artist, designer, filmmaker and quintessential Parisian socialite - whose career covered the decades from 1909 to 1963. Jean Cocteau, Spanning the Century...
...Orientals" are seen, stereotypically, as the "Other": eccentric and backward, sensual and passive. Men are feminine, but also threatening; women are exotic and easily dominated. Images that portray the Orient from an exotic point of view, even if they are just landscapes, are said by scholars to be Orientalist...
Sevruguin, however, is not your average Orientalist. He lived in Iran his whole life (from sometime in the 1830s to 1933), and he expressed in his letters a deep love for his country. To him, Persia was hardly the exotic or inferior area that it was to the British and French. His studio photographs may just have been a concession to what was popular at the time, but it is hard to photograph a landscape through a political lens. Sevruguin's landscapes are beautiful, exotic when we look at them only because they are not fields and trees...