The Representation of the Orient in Western Arts (1700-2000): syllabus
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Loretta Innocenti, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Week 1
General introduction. What is the “Orient”?
Week 2
The Eighteenth century. Literature and the visual arts discover the Orient.
Week 3
Epistolary novels.
Week 4
The Oriental tale.
Week 5
The visual arts, architecture, gardens, furniture, clothes: the Orient as fashion.
Week 6
The Nineteenth century. The Romantic age and the Orient.
Week 7
Colonial empires. A different knowledge of the Orient.
Week 8
The end of the Nineteenth century: exoticism.
Week 9
The discovery of the Far East.
Week 10
Twentieth century avant-gardes.
Week 11
The Orient in the second half of the Twentieth century. Decolonization and globalization.
Week 12
Contemporary critical views of orientalism.
Week 13
Review and assessments
