Painting the East (feat. Jackal)

Josiah is joined by Jackal (@JackalJester) to discuss Orientalism in art history. They take some time to look over a few paintings and try to examine what they say about European perceptions of the East, as well as European perceptions of their role in the East. 

References

Orientalism by Edward Said

Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa, painted by Antoine-Jean Gros (1804)

The Massacre at Chios, painted by Eugène Delacroix (1824)

Solomon’s Wall, painted by Vasily Vereshchagin (1884-5)

The Apotheosis of War, painted by Vasily Vereshchagin (1871)

They are Triumphant, painted by Vasily Vereshchagin (1871-2)

The Slave Market, painted by Otto Pilny (1910)

The Slave Market, painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1866)

The Snake Charmer, painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1879)

Music

 Yesterday – bloom.

The Boy with the Arab Strap – Belle and Sebastian

Commiserations – Society

танцевать (Dance) – Molchat Doma

Excuses – The Morning Bender

Palaces of Montezuma – Grinderman

In My Dreams – bloom.

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