Category Archives: Orientalism
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Orientalism Redux 2
Last entry on my trip to England, we made another foray into Orientalism by visiting Brighton an example in architecture that long precedes the painters in the Lure of the East (see below)The Royal Pavilion is an extraordinary monument that lays out in its every detail the British perspectives on the rest of the world […]
This entry was posted on July 5, 2008 and is filed under Brighton Pavilion, dragons, opium, Orientalism. -
Orientalism Redux
This is Captain Colin Mackenzie painted by James Sant in 1842.The portrait is a major work in the Lure of the East Exhibition at the Tate Britain. The exhibition re-examines Orientalist painting, mostly concentrating on nineteenth century painters in the countries around the Mediterranean.But this portrait is of quite a different subject. Captain Colin Mackenzie […]
This entry was posted on July 5, 2008 and is filed under Afghan War, Lure of the East, Orientalism, Tate Britain.
