Sentences with word «orientalism»

By analyzing the power operating in pre-colonial discourse, specifically by means of the monopoly of Sanskrit knowledge and its dominance in interpreting the Dharmic law, Scott makes us aware of the local and autochthonous roots of Orientalism in India's past.8

Rather nationalism is the avatar of Orientalism in the later colonial and postcolonial period.

Just as with Orientalism, nationalism took over the project of construing India as a unitary and homogeneous entity which was religiously one, and uncovered the fact that the essence of this religiousness was Hindu.

(You can see in the copper outfit above that there are details with a touch of orientalism by the belt.

NMWA's summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World is organized around three themes: Deconstructing Orientalism, Constructing Identities, and New Documentary.

Chase shows a fascinating influence from orientalism, and Mary Cassatt created portraits that seem to brush their subject across a scene like fine ink.

They also see the challenge of democratic inclusivity in China as the need to address the problem of Han chauvinism (which they term «Oriental orientalism») that lauds Han superiority over the national minorities.

8 See David C. Scott, «Pre-colonial Orientalism in South Asia», in Re-visioning India's Religious Traditions, David C. Scott & Israel Selvanayagam, eds, New Delhi, ISPCK, 1996, pp.3 - 21.

In a sort of reverse Orientalism, Traditionalists find that ideal in a decontextualized harmony of the sacred texts of non-Western societies, and particularly in Islam.

Liotard's travels took him to Constantinople, where his portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire, and of his fashionable European sitters in Turkish attire, fuelled the growing vogue for Orientalism in Europe.

SYRA Arts and The Untitled Space are pleased to present the group show, «Debunking Orientalism,» featuring works by emerging and established artists who live and work out of Egypt, from Cairo, Beheira, Sohag and Alexandria.

David Scott suggests that dimensions of Orientalism involving the dual process of valorizing the normative aspects of the Self (Brahminic) and denigrating the differentiated aspects of the Other (Dalits, tribals and foreigners) were extant well before the colonial enterprise in South Asia.

A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism.

Paul Poiret defined this decade too and introduced orientalism to the Western fashion (even though he began with this in the late 00s).

And, although there are a few pentatonic Orientalisms, the composer and his orchestrator, William D Brohn, are in the main more cunning, preferring slightly skewed western forms, underlining the cultural corruption of Saigon under the French and Americans.

There's some Inception - style world - bending, and other weird reality warping, and it looks very different from previous Marvel movies, in that it sort of reminds me of Batman Begins with that whole «posh white dude goes to the East to gain Wisdom and Skills» thing that's just a swamp of potential Orientalism and appropriation.

by Walter Chaw Into the Woods looks exactly like what a legendary Sondheim production would look like were it adapted by that idiot who made Memoirs of a Geisha into a Vegas drag space - opera dragged through a scrim of horrific Occidental Orientalism.

But given the movie's mystical Asian roots, it can not get away from the unfortunate Orientalism of the comics.

Some may look the same month to Philip Taaffe's decorative orientalism.

From Poles in the service of the Tsar to Persian Presbyterians, I Utter Other looks at the curious case of Slavic Orientalism in the Russian Empire and early USSR.

Taner Ceylan: My previous series Lost Paintings was re-interpretation of the trajectory Ottoman art followed while approaching Orientalism from a critical point of view.

Translated to «morning land», Esser produces a vision of the East which avoids cliched Orientalism, conveying «a sense of reconciliation amidst regional differences and historical issues.»

I feel like the Arab world still experiences orientalism.

«Before Light» (2013) by Walid Siti is chosen as the cover image of the book Orientalism and Imperialismby the Bloomsbury Publishing in London.

Looking East for inspiration becomes an insidious form of Orientalism when the practice results in denigration or in the sense of an exclusive claim to cultural superiority for the West.

Over the years, Irish has visited Vietnam and Europe studying the vernacular of colonialism and orientalism found in grand architecture and opulant interiors.

An unruly display of brassieres Smith designed for men recalled Claes Oldenburg's soft sculpture, though here the vocabulary is of B - movie Orientalism rather than household commodity.

The former, led by Larionov and Goncharova, accused the latter of being dominated by the cheap orientalism of the Ecole de Paris (Paris School), or the decadence of German Expressionism, after which, in 1911, the couple promptly founded the more radical Donkey's Tail group, devoted exclusively to Russian modernism, followed by the Target exhibition (1913), and No 4: Futurists, Rayonists, Primitives (1914).

«One of my teachers pointed me to Edward Said and said, «You have to read Orientalism.»

Orientalist Painting Orientalism was a style of painting involving exotic subject matter - Levantine townscapes, genre scenes and the like - which coincided with the beginning of the great age of steamship travel, and exemplified by the French painter Jean — Leon Gerome, as well as John Frederick Lewis, David Roberts, William Muller and David Wilkie.

Most of the time it is in the spirit of genuine concern at the prospects of a 4 degree warmer world, but sometimes it is malicious, borderline Orientalism, aiming to pass the buck of responsibility (i.e. restrictions) to the emerging (not emerged) superpowers.

Naomi Klein examines how Said's ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have been the silent partners to climate change since the earliest days of the steam engine, continuing to present day decisions to let entire nations drown and others warm to lethal levels.

Egypt's long history with Orientalism has subjected it to both internal and external visual paradigms that epistemologically cling to such Eurocentric notions.

NMWA's summer exhibition She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World is organized around three themes: Constructing Identities, Deconstructing Orientalism, and New Documentary.

Her key works include Mingei Theory and Japanese Modernisation: Cultural National - ism and Oriental Orientalism, «Transnational Modern Design Histories in East Asia» and «Negotiating Histories: Traditions in Modern and Contemporary Asia - Paci c Art.»

This Turkish artist specializes in what could be described as reverse Orientalism, subverting the 19th - century category of genre paintings that captured scenes of the Middle East imagined as exotic by Europeans at the time.