Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography

Book Overview

Until now, Orientalist art-exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars-has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions. Focusing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328747
• ISBN13: 9780822328742
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.6"