Admiration of Foreign Cultures - Orientalism, Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail, Europhile, Oriental Carpets in Renaissance Painting (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Orientalism, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Europhile, Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting, Persian Letters, Slavophile, Francophile, Laconophilia, Circassian beauties, Philhellenism, Estophilia, Viking revival, Fausto Zonaro, Indomania, Chinese House, Russophilia, American Egyptomania, Philo-Semitism, For Lust of Knowing, Sinophile, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Japanophile, Xenophily, Anglophile, Oriental Stories, Germanophile, Allophilia, Persophilia, Croatophile, Japanification, Armenophile, Lusophilia, Austrophile, Hibernophile, Imatto-canna, Serbophilia, Hispanophile, Xiaozi, Albanophile, Neo-orientalism. Excerpt: Orientalism is a term used for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, as well as having other meanings. In particular, Orientalist painting, depicting more specifically "the Middle East including North Africa," was one of the many specialisms of 19th century Academic art. "Orientalism" refers to the Orient or East, in contrast to the Occident or West. Since the 18th century, "orientalist" has been the traditional term for a scholar of Oriental studies, however the use in English of "Orientalism" to describe the academic subject of "Oriental studies" is rare; the Oxford English Dictionary cites only one such usage, by Lord Byron in 1812. "Orientalism" is more widely used to refer to the works of the many 19th century artists, who specialized in "Oriental" subjects, often drawing on their travels to North Africa and Western Asia. Artists as well as scholars were already described as "Orientalists" in the 19th century, especially in France, where the term, with a rather dismissive sense, was largely popularized by the critic Jules Castagnary. Such distain did not prevent the Societe des Peintres Orientalistes ("Society of Orientalis...