#Orientalism

[opencommunion]

"The point to be argued is not how to qualify the status of homosexuality across the broad historical and geographical, not to mention religious, regional, class, national, and political variances of the Middle East. We must consider instead how the production of homosexuality as taboo is situated within the history of encounters with the western gaze. While in Said’s Orientalism the illicit sex found in the Orient was sought out in order to liberate the Occident from its own performance of the repressive hypothesis, in the case of Abu Ghraib, conversely, it is the (perverse) repression of the Arab prisoners that is highlighted in order to efface the rampant hypersexual excesses of the U.S. prison guards. The Orient, once conceived in Foucault’s ars erotica and Said’s deconstructive work as the place of original release, unfettered sin, and acts with no attendant identities or consequences, now symbolizes the space of repression and perversion, and the site of freedom has been relocated to western identity. Given the unbridled homophobia (among other phobias) demonstrated by the U.S. guards, it is indeed ironic, yet predictable, that the United States nonetheless emerges as sexually exceptional: less homophobic and more tolerant of homosexuality (and less tainted by misogyny and fundamentalism) than the repressed, modest, nudity-shy Middle East." Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)

#imperialism #orientalism #library #posting puar as promised

[the-evil-clergyman]

Odalisque by Delphin Enjolras (19th Century)

#delphin enjolras #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #painting #french art #french artist #orientalism #concubine #odalisque #figurative #classic art

[itznarcotic]

#sinophobia #racism #orientalism #china #japan

[emptyportrait]

it's almost like global south's reality is some sort of aesthetic concept for white people.

#palestinian resistance #houthis #long live the resistance #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #Palestine #yemen #gaza #free gaza #dune #gaza strip #imperialism #orientalism

[die-rosastrasse]

Hans Zatzka

Austrian, 1859-1945

The Belly Dancer (details)

#art #art detail #painting #classical art #hans zatzka #painting detail #art history #historical art #austrian art #art academia #women in art #fashion history #historical fashion #fabrics #textiles #20th century art #academic art #artwork #oil painting #orientalism #zatzka #orientalist art #academism #dark academia #dark academia art #dark academia aesthetic

[beatricecenci]

Francesc Masriera i Manovens (Spanish, 1842-1902)

Salomé

#Orientalism #Francesc Masriera i Manovens #Spanish Art #Art #Israel #Mediterranean

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Jean-François Portaels (1818-1895) "Juive de Tanger" ("Jewish woman from Tangier") (1874) Oil on panel Orientalism Currently in a private collection

#paintings #art #artwork #female portrait #jean françois portaels #jean francois portaels #oil on panel #oil on wood panel #fine art #orientalism #orientalist movement #private collection #belgian artist #portrait of a woman #jewish woman #jewelry #jewellery #white #aesthetic #aesthetics #1870s #late 1800s #late 19th century #1k #2k

[artystyczny-nieporzadek]

(details) The Sheik's Daughter Eduard Sack (German, born in 1857)

#Eduard Sack #art details #art detail #women #women in art #art #painting #paintings #orientalism #orientalist art

[pintoras]

Jenny Nyström (Swedish, 1854-1946): Couple under a parasol (via Bukowskis)

#Jenny Nyström #Jenny Nystrom #women artists #women painters #art #painting #nineteenth century #twentieth century #orientalism #swedish painters #watercolour

[the-evil-clergyman]

The Waking Up by Charles Landelle (1864)

#charles landelle #art #paintings #fine art #19th century #19th century art #academicism #academism #academic art #orientalism #painting #french art #french artist #waking up #odalisque #classic art

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Hollywood loves Arab cultures but not Arab people

#anti arab racism #dune 2 #anti dune #orientalism #islamophobia #free palestine

[lionofchaeronea]

African Holding a Horse at the Edge of a Sea, Alfred de Dreux (1810-1860)

#art #art history #Alfred de Dreux #genre painting #genre art #poc in art #animalier #animals in art #horse #horses #Orientalism #Orientalist art #French art #19th century art #oil on canvas #private collection

[balkanparamo]

Orientalism

#art #chinese #orientalism #fashion model

[die-rosastrasse]

Marie Félix Hippolyte-Lucas

French, 1854-1925

Salome, 1890 (detail)

#Art #classical art #painting #art detail #felix marie hippolyte lucas #Marie Felix hoppolyte lucas #Salome #women in art #bible art #women in history #fine arts #art #painting detail #dark academia art #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia #dark aesthetic #19th century art #19th century #orientalism #art history #historical art #art details

[beatricecenci]

John Frederick Lewis (English, 1804-1876)

A Young Turkish Woman

#Orientalism #John Frederick Lewis #British Art #English Art #Art #Turkey #Mediterranean

[belle-keys]

"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice."

- Orientalism by Edward Said

#orientalism #orientalist #edward said #book quotes #nonfiction #colonization #imperialism #academia #racism #free palestine #anti zionisim #decolonisation