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Orientalism (19th Century)
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About Orientalism
Description of Orientalism |
Orientalism
Art-historical
term
applied
to
a
category
of
subject-matter
referring
to
the
depiction
of
the
Near
East
by
Western
artists,
particularly
in
the
19th
century.
Images
of
the
life,
history
and
topography
of
Turkey,
Syria,
Iraq,
Iran,
the
Arabian
Peninsula,
Jordan,
Israel,
Lebanon,
Egypt,
Libya,
Tunisia,
Algeria,
Morocco
and
sometimes
modern
Greece,
the
Crimea,
Albania
and
the
Sudan
constitute
the
field
of
Orientalism.
Although
almost
any
biblical
subject
in
Western
art
would
rank
as
an
Orientalist
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