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Orientalism

In art history, literature, and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. Orientalist painting, particularly of West Asia and North Africa, was one of the many specialties of 19th-century academic art, and Western literature was…

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related to Literature · 162
Orientalism → Abu Hayyan, Aesthetics, Alexander Lyon, Allworth Press, Amer, American Orientalism, Ancient Thought, Andre Gunder, Ann Arbor, Asia, Asian Age, Available, Balagangadhara, Basingstoke, Bedouin Visual Leadership, Bessis, British Journal, British Orientalisms, California Press, Chatterjee
related to Art · 70
Orientalism → Abbeville Publishing Group, Alazard, Ali, Art, Arts, As, At, Behdad, Benjamin, California Press, Christine, Cid Lucas, Colonial Representation, Colonialism, Delacroix, Despite, Donald, Eugène Delacroix, European Painters, Fernando
related to American Orientalism · 49
Orientalism → American, American Oriental Society, American Orientalism, American Orientalist, American Orientalists, American War, Anglo-French, Anirudra Thapa, Bible Lands, British Raj, Cairo, China, East, Eastern, Edward Said, Edwin Lord Weeks, Europe's, French, German, His
related to In dance · 39
Orientalism → Another, By, During, East, Golden Slave, Hindu Dance, In, Indian, Its, Joseph Mazilier, Kalidasa's, Kathak, La Bayadere, La Bayadère, Le Corsaire, Lord Byron's, Marius Petipa, Maryinsky Ballet, Michel Fokine, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
related to In film · 39
Orientalism → American, American's, Americans, August Moon, Beyond, Chinese, Cinema, Critics, Disney, Disney's Aladdin, East, East Asian, Figueiredo, Geishas, Hanfu, He, Hsieh, In The Tea House, Indiana Jones, Instead
related to Oriental studies · 28
Orientalism → Additionally, Among, Arab, Asian, British, Company, East India Company, Eastern, Europe, Far East, German, Hebraism, In, India, Indian, Indians, Indo-European, Islamic, Jewish, John Stuart Mill
related to Russian Orientalism · 23
Orientalism → Anton Rubinstein, As, Balakirev, Balakirev's Islamey, Borodin's Prince Igor, Central Asia, Cumans, German, Kipchaks, Many, Middle Ages, Nikolai Przhevalsky, One, Orient, Pechenegs, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Russia, Russian, Russian Orientalist, Tatars
related to In music · 22
Orientalism → Balakirev, Beethoven, Borodin, East, Europeans, France, Germany, Glinka, In, Lyapunov, Mozart, Nonetheless, Rachmaninov, Richard Taruskin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Romantic Russian, Russia, Russian, Taruskin, The
related to Othering · 22
Orientalism → Asian, Bollywood, Chinese, Edward Said, European, Germany, Greece, However, Indian, Japanese, Much, Orient, Orientalist, Othering, Others, Said's, Said's Orientalism, Similarly, The, These
related to Pop culture · 22
Orientalism → Aida, Authors, But, East, Egypt, Egypt's, Ethiopia, Europe's, Flaubert, Giuseppe Verdi's, Ireland, Irish Orientalism, Lord Byron, Milesians, Mozart, Orient, Oriental, Orientalist, Romanticism, The

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Orientalismis aimitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world0.90text
Gustav Bauernfeintinstance ofthe realists who carefully painted what they observed0.80text
Eugène Delacroixinstance ofFrench painters0.80text
Juan González de Mendoza idealized Asian religiousinstance ofdescribing how missionary ethnographers0.80text
ethical lifeinstance ofdescribing how missionary ethnographers0.80text
constructing an admiredinstance ofdescribing how missionary ethnographers0.80text
Claude Monetinstance ofmany modern French artists0.80text
Edgar Degas were influenced by the Japanese styleinstance ofmany modern French artists0.80text
Eugène Delacroixinstance ofFrench artists0.80text
Jean-Léon Gérômeinstance ofFrench artists0.80text
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres painted many works depicting Islamic cultureinstance ofFrench artists0.80text
often including lounging odalisquesinstance ofFrench artists0.80text

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