Orientalism, eroticism and modern visuality in global cultures / edited by Joan DelPlato and Julie Codell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DelPlato, Joan, 1953- editor.

Codell, Julie F., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orientalism in art.

Sex (Psychology) in art.

Ethnic attitudes in art.

Arts, Modern--19th century--Themes, motives.

Arts, Modern.

Arts and society--History--19th century.

Arts and society.

Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.

History.

Themes, motives.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

In Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures scholars look afresh at representations of nineteenth-century "oriental" bodies, inquiring deeply into their erotic dimensions, tracing their global dissemination at cross-cultural intersections of the visual and the political. Authors consider the impact of eroticized orientalist representations registered on racial and gendered bodies at historical moments across the globe in the media of photography, painting, prints and sculpture. The visual is contextualized within social practices and the dynamic of imperialism, providing evidence from ethnography, literature and travel writing. Authors examine orientalism's politico-erotic import across not only imperial Britain and France but also throughout India and the Middle East initiating cross-cultural analyses of orientalism outside of Europe. Works studied include Orientalist and homoerotic works by canonic artists such as Ingres, Gérôme, Delacroix and Girodet, and lesser-known artists such as sculptor Raffaele Monti and painter Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann. Contributors explore Turkish and European writings, explorer Richard Burton's self-fashioning, and popular Orientalist photography in India and the Middle East. Authors draw on methods from gender studies, semiotics, material culture and psychoanalysis to explore art, national identity, homoerotic subcultures, female agency, class, sexuality and colonialism. The book is directed to interdisciplinary scholars and students in art history, literature, history, and postcolonial studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : rethinking orientalism, eroticism and cross-cultural visuality / Julie Codell and Joan DelPlato. Race, Ethnicity and the Abject Oriental. Menace at the portal : masculine desire and the homoerotics of orientalism / James Smalls

Delacroix's invitation to the Jewish Wedding in Morocco / Albert Boime

Seeing through 'The Veil Trick' : heterotopic eroticism in Monti's sculpture Circassian Slave at the Crystal Palace in 1851 / Joan DelPlato

Discourses of Projection and Cultural Cross-Dressing. The conceit of Burton's scar : orientalism as identity and transgression / Julie Codell

Other desires and the desire of others / Mary Roberts

Circulating and Re-circulating Oriental Erotics. Sapphism and the seraglio : reflections on the queer female gaze and orientalism / Reina Lewis

European fantasies and Awadhi aspirations : from a 'Turkish' harem to a Lucknowi Zenana / Saleema Waraich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409463955

1409463958

OCLC:

951820422

Publisher Number:

40026174911