Exoticism and Orientalism in 19th-Century Art

3 units

An examination of the traditions of exoticism and orientalism in European painting and photography from approximately 1800 to 1900. Readings will include artists' writings, travel journals, literature, theory of colonialism and exoticism. Sample topics to be discussed include: Delacroix, Ingres, Gerome, and the Orient; Flaubert and Maxime du Camp in Egypt; Gauguin and La Farge in Polynesia.