ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sylvia Sleigh, Hippie, The Turkish Bath
what is Romanticism?
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Orientalism is a subsect of romanticism
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based on truth & escaping
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in orientalist art, we are escapiing & trying to find some truth
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what is orientalism?
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dont say orientalist, bc without -ism its a derogatory term
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style, artifacts, or traits considered characters of the peoples and cultures of
Asia
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Edward said- literary scholar ; he coined the term orientalism
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J-A-D. Ingres, The Turkish Bath, 1862
new commodities
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Objectifying women; naked women
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Dancing, eating, making themselves available, sitting on the floor
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frame is a circle to portray a peephole; meant for men to peep into a
scene
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Sylvia Sleigh, The Turkish Bath, 1973
naked men; embracing hippie movement in 70’s
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Hippie culture: tapestry in the background
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1968, Beatles study meditation w Yogi
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Male nude: exotic
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Objectifying men
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makes men hairy on purpose
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Objectification: the act of treating someone as an object, unable to act/think on
his/her behalf; to make a person into an object by refusing, consciously or not,
to acknowledge subjectivity
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Subjectivity: persons agency or ability to act, think & experience for themselves.
Active thinking human. w/o subjectivity person becomes an object
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Looking at objects in paintings give clues to orientalism•
Odalisque: housemaid, developed to mean a female slave or concubine•
76% of nudes in Met. Museum are women , but less than 4% of the artists in the
modern art sections are women (2011)
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Section 1: Romanticism and Orientalism Notes
Thursday, April 19, 2018
8:51 AM
