ARTH 400
Ottoman and Orientalist Visual Culture Fall 2017
Division I
Cross-listed
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Jean-Léon Gérôme’s famous painting, The Snake Charmer, at the Clark Art Institute will be our starting point for examining the connections between Ottoman and Orientalist visual culture in the modern period. Artists who were fascinated by the Near East (Gérôme, Ingres, Delacroix, Lewis, Renoir and Matisse) will be studied alongside Orientalist photography, international exhibitions, theories of ornament, travel literature and film. This course encompasses diverse regional orientalisms (in Poland, Russia, Denmark, America and Australia) and the distinctive contribution of women artists. Western engagement with the Islamic world will be examined alongside contemporaneous Ottoman art, patronage and the visual culture of statecraft. We will consider Ottoman modernization as a context through which alternative images of the region were generated. The cultural and political significance of Orientalist visual culture will be critically analyzed through comparative study of French-trained Ottoman artists and their Orientalist mentors Gérôme and Boulanger.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 16
Expected: 16
Class#: 1844
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: each student will write one short midterm paper and a longer concluding essay, as well as present a couple of readings to the class
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Enrollment Preferences: places for 8 undergraduates and 8 graduate students assured
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTH 500 Division I ARTH 400 Division I

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