Area studies and its 19th-century predecessor, Orientalism, were formed and shaped by the politics of their times, according to Biray Kolluoglu-Kirli, an assistant professor of sociology at ...

Jean-Léon Gérôme is by all accounts the poster boy of Orientalism. During the second half of the 19th century, the French painter found critical and commercial success with his meticulously ...

the uses of orientalist methodologies in education for the civilising mission in the 19th century; and, the adaptation, by Indian Sanskrit scholars, of some of orientalism's discursive constructs ...

the scope to explore not only the historic but the aesthetic imperative of orientalism. As this exhibition persuasively argues, mounting interest in non-European culture in the long 19th century h ...

and Social Darwinism would have sounded the death knell of 19th-century Orientalism, which viewed China and the Chinese language through a condescending, colonialist lens. At the least ...

The exhibition will give visitors an insight into 19th century Orientalism Sharjah: Highlighting one of the 19th century’s mainstream artistic movements known as Orientalism, the Sharjah Art ...