ARTHI 6C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ath, Denis Diderot, Théodore Géricault
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Dramatic settings (life or death moments, beyond human control) Eroticism and privacy (voyeuristic, keen interest in female body) Began as a literary movement --> influenced visual arts. Emphasis on imagination and emotion, rejection of the disillusionment with the. Sublime: feeling of awe, human struggle against power and force of nature. Melancholy: feeling of sadness, human struggle against self. Regulates trade in africa, pacts between germany, france, british, belgium to divide africa. Resolves to phase out slavery to create public acceptance. Middle east becomes known as orient in france even though it is not east asia or southeast asia. Edward said uses the term "the orient" to refer to arabs and islam. A mode of representing "the other" without consent. Style of thought: western superiority vs. oriental inferiority. The colonized represented as objects to the colonizers. Contrast conception: recurring images of "the other" helped define europe as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience.