Visual Arts History 1042A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exotica, Xenophobia, Alphonse Bertillon
17 Dec 2017
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Orientalism: closly linkted ot colonialism and imperialism. Colonialism and imperialism: the business of bulding empires, queen victoria, building the net wealth of conolizing countries, imperialism is the process of making colonialism. 19th century: india becomes the first country used. Interest in tradition in order for them to govern them: the study of the orientalist driven by empire interest and social scientific methodology, edward said. Writing the history about the way the orient had been theorized: delacroix. Thic brus strokes in contrast to sharp edges of neoclassical. Meditative figure (king) in the midts of violence. Would have been shocking if set in the west, but it was set in the orient: becomes an aesthetic category, contsuction of a relationship, already happening in exhibitions, scientific survey of a place. Coems from eurpoean view: jean- auguse-cominique ingres. European public was schooled to think of places of their empire as theyre possetion: jean-leon gerome. Objectivity: imperisim, belief in possiblility in an objective view.
