We have all come across dystopian visions of a bad future, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Less familiar is the practice of bad futurism, often hidden inside seemingly compelling ...

The impact of Orientalism has breathed life to literary works from Byron’s Turkish Tales to Marco Polo’s Book of Marvels. In the world of fashion, works by some of the greats were informed by ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. ReOrient Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 2019 The Jew and the Odalisque: Two Tropes Lo... Contemporary ...

“I know I’m not supposed to because it’s problematic, but I really love Gérôme’s work,” a visitor said sheepishly at the entrance of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha ahead of ...

These tropes form a part of what Palestinian-American intellectual and activist Edward Said called Orientalism. His seminal 1978 book of the same name explores the ways Western experts ...

Decades after its release, Orientalism continues to be a valuable resource and provides important lessons Anonymous Venetian orientalist painting titled The Reception of the Ambassadors in ...