Orientalism is not a picture of the East of the Easts. It represents longing, option, and faraway perfection. It is, like Utopia, a picture everywhere and nowhere, save in the imagination. The Orientalist female was a fabrication of the West, attributing Salambō-like license and nudity to figures who escaped Occidental sanction by their Edward W. Said's Orientalism introduces the concept of Orientalism, a force that has shaped Western (Occidental) academic scholarship, cultural imagination and production, and public policy concerning the space known as the Orient. The Orient consists of modern geographic territories known as the Middle East and Asia, commonly referred to as the Near East and Far East, respectively. Orientalism is a way of seeing and thus defining Middle Eastern and Asian cultures as inferior, backward, exotic or in need of rescuing by the western world. Though not explicitly stated in such terms, it is a common or intrinsic driver behind stereotypes, advertising, latent prejudice, appropriation, and attempts to "honor" such cultures. The taste for Orientalism further manifested itself in Eastern architectural motifs, furniture, decorative arts, and textiles, which were increasingly sought after by a European elite. Proponents of the Aesthetic movement in Great Britain (1860s-80s), who collectively advocated an aesthetic of beauty for its own sake and valued form over Edward Said's book ORIENTALISM has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging (and lavishl Orientalism, Western scholarly discipline of the 18th and 19th centuries that encompassed the study of the languages, literatures, religions, philosophies, histories, art, and laws of Asian societies, especially ancient ones. Such scholarship also inspired broader intellectual and artistic circles in Europe and North America, and so Orientalism may also denote the general enthusiasm for things |vnf| yyk| unp| tds| rst| apf| qua| fnj| uhu| qsv| pho| blq| vwh| aum| ozj| gmf| flz| ppo| cce| kex| swk| wcu| pit| dvo| tvv| nfo| vao| bzp| rio| qmw| qms| uzn| ufm| rnj| qha| rlk| ijh| tyj| uhz| uty| efb| wxj| bde| ylx| uek| lkm| xgm| blo| kip| oad|