ORIENTALIST PAINTING IN LONDON

The classic Orientalist model of a palace guard was Sub-Saharan and unquestionably masculine, as in this vision by Fabres y Costa

There is an abundance of ambiguity in Orientalist art. For Edward Said, a scholar of literature and music rather than the visual arts, those 19th-century Western paintings were distressingly black and white – or brownish and white. The artists were,… Continue reading