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Orientalism was one of the most popular phenomenons in the „long“ 19th century, and perhaps the first mass art of modernity, which radiated far into the 20th century and still shapes the imagination about the so-called Orient. Since the Egyptian campaign of Napoleon the growing interest in visual representations and exploration of the Orient went hand in hand with the expansion of the colonial powers in the Near and Middle East and on the Asian continent. The lecture traces this complex entanglement of ideology, politics, economy, and art and introduces in to the debates on Orientalism, as they were rised by the influential publication of Edward Said (Orientalism, 1978) and have fertilized the history and theory of art and its methods.

Lecture

Written exam

Edward Said: Orientalism, New York 1978; Linda Nochlin: The Imaginary Orient. In: Art in America, Mai 1983, 119–131/187–191; Roger Benjamin: Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee, Sydney, 1997; Roger Benjamin, Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa 1880–1930, Berkeley 2003; Roger Diederen und Davy Depelchin: Orientalismus in Europa. Von Delacroix bis Kandinsky, München 2010; Zeynep Celik: Displaying the Orient. Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs, Berkeley 1992

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