In her large - scale photographs that conjure up the reclining odalisques of nineteenth - century Orientalist paintings, Essaydi empowers her figures with defiant gazes that resist voyeurism and stereotypes of exoticism. (jenkinsjohnsongallery.com)
Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London) explicitly references the ubiquitous odalisque in art. (eastcityart.com)
For this installment of «Image Universe,» we take Ingres» La Grande Odalisque as our starting point to think about the trope of the reclining nude and the images that have cemented, circumvented, and subverted this tradition of visualizing desire. (pelicanbomb.com)