Orientalism's Interlocutors - Painting, Architecture, Photography

"Focusing largely on the conjunction of Orientalism and pictorial representation, a still underexamined area, "Orientalism's Interlocutors" contributes new understanding to the concepts of Orientalism and colonial discourses."--Julie Codell, coeditor of "Orientalism Transposed: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture"

List of contents

List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments

Orientalism's Interlocutors / Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts
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Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse / Zeynep Celik
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Colonial Tutelage to Nationalist Affirmation: Mammeri and Racim, Painters of the Maghred / Roger Benjamin
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The Mosque and the Metropolis / Mark Crimson
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Earth into the World, Land into Landscape: The “Worlding” of Algeria in Nineteenth-Century British Feminism / Deborah Cherry

Henri Regnault's Wartime Orientalism / Hollis Clayson

Contested Terrains: Women Orientalists and the Colonial Harem / Mary Roberts

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

About the author

Jill Beaulieu and Mary Roberts, eds.

Summary

Suitable for those interested in art history, theories of gender, and postcolonial studies, this book 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.

Product details

• Authors: Beaulieu
• Assisted by: Jill Beaulieu (Editor), Mary Roberts (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2002
• EAN: 9780822328742
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2874-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe; Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Asien, Kunst: Themen und Techniken, ART / Subjects & Themes / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, Art & Art Instruction, ART / Asian / General