ARTH 4695 - Studies in Global Modern Art

@ (CA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

Co-meets with ARTH 6695.

I. Dadi.

Orientalism and Modern Art of the Middle East: This seminar explores how the “Orient” has been visually represented in Western art, architecture, literature, and media since the 19th century. Popular and scholarly ideas about the Orient and Orientalism have come under increasing scrutiny since the publication of Edward Said’s influential critique. Explores debates surrounding Said’s critique, and also discuss its salience in the analysis of modern and contemporary art and visual culture. Includes discussions of French Orientalist paintings; Hollywood depictions of the Orient; national independence movements that redeployed colonial textual and visual archives to formulate the national past. Examines the strategies of modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East who have appropriated, resisted and bypassed the troupe of Orientalism altogether.