The Imaginary Orient
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"The Imaginary Orient" (May 1983) is an essay by American art historian Linda Nochlin published in Art in America. It points out that the seemingly photorealistic quality of the The Snake Charmer painting ("a visual document of nineteenth-century colonialist ideology") allows Jean-Léon Gérôme to present an unrealistic scene as if it were a true representation of the east. Nochlin considers it better a representation of the West's colonial ideology, defined by Edward Said in his book Orientalism.
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- "What is the rationale behind the recent spate of revisionist or expansionist exhibitions of nineteenth-century art ..."
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