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ORIENTALISM AND “ISLAMOPHILIA”
This year’s Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, titled Histories in Transition, explores the theme of historicism in visual art of the modern period. For the third lecture in the series, Rémi Labrusse, of Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, described idealist visions … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum | Tags: Aesthetics, Alhambra, art, colonialism, decorative art, figuration, Frank Dillon, geometric abstraction, Great Exhibition of 1851, Histories, history painting, idealism, idealist visions, imperialism, industrial capitalism, Islamophilia, Jean-Léon Gerôme, Labrusse, Middle East, narratives, nineteenth-century art, Orient, Orientalism, painting, Research Forum, Transition, visual art | Leave a commentCURATORS IN DIALOGUE ON THE PERSISTENCE OF HISTORIES
On the 20th of June 2012 I had the pleasure of attending Curators in Dialogue on the Persistence of Histories, part of the Revival: Utopia, Identity, Memory project led by Dr. Ayla Lepine, the current Andrew Mellon and Research Forum Post-doctoral Fellow. As … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum, Response | Tags: Aesthetics, Alhambra, craft, evocations, Gothic, Histories, identity, irony, kitsch, memory, Middle Eastern, narratives, photographic image, Politics, Research Forum, revivalism, style, utopia, Victorian | Leave a comment
