Ingres, Grme, Delacroix - the most renowned artists of European art history - and especially French ones - were highly concerned with the myth, charm and the supposed otherness of the Orient. In this course you will get to know their artworks and which cultural perspectives are connected with the imagery of the Oriental. Thereby the individual and political contexts of orientalist art come to light. What did French artists admire about the Oriental world?What role did politics and colonialism play?How much veracity lies within the depictions shown to the European public?Who had actually been to the Orient and why?How do we nowadays perceive cultural spheres that differ from our own? REVISEDSUBTITLES
