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 111-430 Orientalism in Visual Culture: A Colonising Gaze

Note

Available as 111-330 at 3rd-year level.

No student may receive credit for both this subject and 111-330 Colonialism and Orientalist art.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 3rd and 4th year

Coordinator

Dr Roger Benjamin

Contact

Three hours of lectures, tutorials or seminars each week

Subject Description

The subject studies European constructions of the East (North Africa to India) in painting, photography, travel writing, architecture, and universal exhibitions. Artists studied include Delacroix, Gérôme, Loti, Matisse, Indian and Algerian painters. Critiques of Orientalism, cross-cultural reading (e.g. Japonisme), and colonial history are considered from a post-colonial perspective.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 5000 words for 3rd year and 6000 words for 4th year.



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