According to Edward Said the Orient is a European construction that has arisen out of a need to describe the Western civilisation as culturally superior. This occurrence Said gives the label "Orientalism". Art historian Linda Nochlin takes Said’s theories further in The Imaginary Orient where she conveys the thesis that the pictorial Orientalism is an expression of an imperialistic ideology. John M. Mackenzie, on the other hand is of the opinion that the pictorial Orientalism rather is an expression of the Romantic movement. To understand the Orientalist art we have to consider the social and historical context in which the work was created. By trying to justify the Orientalists choice of motive Mackenzie takes the view of those who consider art history as a positive discipline. Nochlin on the other hand means that we instead of fortifying the art historical canon we ought to politicize it, which only is possible if we contemplate art history as a critical rather than a positive discipline.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-159).

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L’artiste débute sa carrière au moment où le développement considérable de la critique en France s’explique par plusieurs facteurs : la centralisation parisienne de la vie artistique et littéraire, le prestige inhérent aux Salons de la capitale, et surtout la publication au début du siècle des Salons de Diderot, qui jusque-là n’ayant pas dépassé le cercle privé de l’auteur se retrouvèrent érigés en modèle d’un nouveau genre littéraire. Car il n’y a pas, et ce durant les quarante années de carrière de Delacroix, de critique professionnelle. C’est pourquoi celle-ci regroupe sous ce seul terme une multitude d’auteurs, une abondance de textes et de mediums. Un corpus considérable d’articles nous renseigne sur ce que fut la réception de Delacroix du début à la fin de sa carrière jusqu’à la fin du siècle, et nous montre comment l’esthétique de l’artiste put être appréhendée. La longévité de la carrière de Delacroix est l’un des intérêts majeurs d’une telle recherche, tant elle s’accompagne de bouleversements politiques, sociologiques, idéologiques et esthétiques. La critique qui découvre pour la première fois le jeune artiste en 1822 n’est plus celle qu’il quitte en 1859, tout comme celle de 1885 qui voit approcher l’aune d’un nouveau siècle. L’intérêt de ce travail sera non seulement de tenter de réunir l’intégralité des textes produits par la critique de 1822 à 1885, mais aussi et surtout de mettre en lumière -par l’analyse des textes et de leur contexte- les processus qui permirent à la critique non seulement d’évoluer vers la nouvelle discipline de l’histoire de l’art, mais aussi d’ériger un artiste en l’un des plus fameux symboles du XIXème siècle. / The artist began his career at the same time as the development of critics/criticism in France - this is explained by several factors: centralization of Parisian artistic and literary life, the inherent prestige of ‘Salons’ in the capital, and especially the publication at the beginning of the century of the ‘Salons of Diderot’, which were started as a model of a new literary genre, and which had not yet exceeded the private author's circle. Also, during the forty years of Delacroix’s career there had been no professional criticism. This is why this single term regroups a multitude of authors, an abundance of texts and media. There are a considerable number of articles provide information on the response to Delacroix from the beginning to the end his career until the end of the century, and inform us how the artist’s works were accepted and interpreted. The length of Delacroix’s career is one of the major interests of any research, as it was accompanied by political, sociological, ideological and artistic upheavals. The criticism that the young artist discovers for the first time in 1822 is very different to that in 1859, and again in 1885, at the approach of a new century. The interest of this work will not only attempt to bring together all of the critical texts produced between 1822 to 1885, but also to highlight - by analysis of the texts and their context - process which enabled them to move towards a new discipline of the History of Art, but also to create an artist who is one most famous symbols of the 19th century.

Thesis advisor: Jeffery Howe / The Orient has been a mythical, looming presence since the foundation of Islam in the 7th century. It has always been the “Other” that Edward Said wrote about in his 1979 book Orientalism. The gulf of misunderstanding between the myth and the reality of the Near East still exists today in the 21st century. Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and the subsequent colonization of the Near East is perhaps the defining moment in the Western perception of the Near East. At the beginning of modern colonization, Napoleon and his companions arrived in the Near East convinced of their own superiority and authority; they were Orientalists. The supposed superiority of Europeans justified the colonization of Islamic lands. Said never specifically wrote about art; however, his theories on colonialism and Orientalism still apply. Linda Nochlin first made use of them in her article “The Imaginary Orient” from 1983. Artists such as Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme demonstrate Said's idea of representing the Islamic “Other” as a culturally inferior and backward people, especially in their portrayal of women. The development of photography in the late 19th century added another dimension to this view of the Orient, with its seemingly objective viewpoint. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Fine Arts. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arte, 2015. / Submitted by Albânia Cézar de Melo (albania@bce.unb.br) on 2016-01-19T15:06:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_LiviaZacariasRocha.pdf: 10414134 bytes, checksum: 474e7e3b6aec9401821bc58f6aed576c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2016-01-26T20:29:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_LiviaZacariasRocha.pdf: 10414134 bytes, checksum: 474e7e3b6aec9401821bc58f6aed576c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T20:29:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_LiviaZacariasRocha.pdf: 10414134 bytes, checksum: 474e7e3b6aec9401821bc58f6aed576c (MD5) / O trabalho proposto nesta dissertação objetiva analisar as relações entre literatura, teatro e artes visuais, tendo como ponto de partida as versões sobre A Morte de Ofélia, do pintor francês Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). Assim, a pesquisa abordará questões teóricas acerca dos estudos interartes e as contribuições que o pintor proporcionou para esse campo de trabalho. Por meio da explanação das transformações ocorridas no teatro francês entre os séculos XVII e XIX, esta investigação pretende, também, estabelecer conexões entre a mise en scène e o estilo de interpretação francês do século XIX com as escolhas feitas por Delacroix em relação ao gesto e à organização dos personagens em suas obras. / The work proposed in this dissertation intends to analyze the relationship among literature, theater and visual arts, taking as a starting point the versions of The Death of Ophelia by French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). Thus, theoretical questions about interart studies and the contributions that the painter gave to this field of work will be arguing. By the means of the explanation of the changes occurred in French theatre between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries it is intended to create connections among the mise en scène and French acting style of nineteenth century with the choices made by Delacroix in relation to gesture and characters organization in his works.

Depuis les années 1980, la critique d’art du XIXe siècle a bénéficié d’un regain d’intérêt dans l’historiographie contemporaine. Malgré cela, la période du Second Empire reste encore mal connue. Notre thèse est consacrée à l’un des critiques d’art de cette période : Théophile Silvestre (1823-1876). Après une approche biographique de son parcours, notre travail montre comment, dans son grand œuvre critique intitulé Histoire des artistes vivants, Silvestre choisit d’étudier les peintres et sculpteurs les plus célèbres de son temps pour examiner la validité de leur notoriété. Confronté à ce qui lui apparaît comme un monde malade, en perte d’idéal, Silvestre est à la recherche des artistes qui sauront régénérer l’art et la vie. Ainsi Delacroix, dont l’imagination puissante transfigure le réel, est-il consacré comme « le plus grand artiste du XIXe siècle ». Après la mort de Delacroix, Silvestre dirige ses préférences vers les peintres de l’école de Barbizon qui, comme lui, tournent le dos au monde nouveau qui s’élabore selon les directives du progrès et de l’industrie, et dont la peinture semble un remède possible aux maux de la société moderne. Chargé à la fin de sa vie de rédiger le catalogue de la collection d’Alfred Bruyas, Silvestre s’attachera à faire entrer le romantisme dans l’histoire, employant le musée comme un rempart à la décadence de l’art moderne. De l’Histoire des artistes vivants au catalogue de la Galerie Bruyas, notre thèse montre quels vestiges de son temps Silvestre a voulu laisser aux historiens futurs et comment il s’est fait le gardien moral de l’histoire de l’art en donnant à son siècle la forme d’une pièce de musée, déjà classée et déjà jugée. / Since the 1980s, there has been a renewed interest in contemporary historiography for the art criticism of the nineteenth-century. The Second Empire era remains nevertheless little-known. Our thesis is devoted to an art critic of that particular time : Théophile Silvestre (1823-1876). After a biographical approach of his career, our research will focus on his criticism masterpiece, Histoire des artistes vivants. We will attempt to show that, when Silvestre chooses to study the most famous painters and sculptors of his time, it is in order to investigate the legitimacy of their popularity. Confronted to a world he deems sick and deprived of faith, Silvestre is looking for artists that will revive art and life. He thus considers Delacroix, whose powerful imagination transcends reality, as "the greatest artist of the 19th century". After the painter's death, Silvestre focuses his interest on the painters of the Barbizon school who, just like him, disapprove of the emerging new world based on the principles of progress and industry, and whose painting appears as a potential cure against modern society. Being towards the end of his life assigned the writing of the Alfred Bruyas' collection's catalog, Silvestre endeavours to give romanticism a rightful place in history, using museums as a frontline against the decay of modern art. From Histoire des artistes vivants to the Galerie Bruyas' catalog, our thesis shows which memories of his time Silvestre decided to pass on to future generations of historians, and how, by shaping his century like a museum item, already classified and already judged, he made himself the moral guardian of history of art.

Dans cette étude que je présente, j'ai pris pour appui l'objet céramique de Fès en tant que référence contextuelle depuis l'époque contemporaine de 2012 jusqu'au XVIIe siècle. L'analyse croisée des sources textuelles et des productions, tant sur le terrain que dans les collections muséales ou privées, nous permet de faire toute la lumière sur les productions céramiques de Fès sur plus de trois siècles. La première partie est consacrée aux aspects politiques et sociaux de la réorganisation des corporations artisanales qui ont conditionné les productions sur plus d'un siècle et demi. La deuxième partie porte sur la sémiologie du décor dans la céramique de 1835 à 1675 (période alaouite). Sont d'abord étudiées les formes issues des fonctions alimentaires et des codes sociaux, puis les éléments du décor qui concourent avec la part des nombres, à l'agencement des dessins transcrits selon des codes cachés. Les conclusions de la thèse reposent sur la caractéristique de codes spirituels présents dans les productions anciennes et qui ont disparu au contact des codes de l'économie et de l'industrie européennes. / In this research, I have focused on the ceramic object from Fes as a contextual reference in the contemporary era from 2012 back to the XVII th century. The analysis crossed together with texts and production sources, both on site and with museums or private collections, enlightens us about Fes's ceramic productions over the last three centuries. The first part is dedicated to politic and social factors of the changes in the organization of the art crafts corporations that influenced the productions for over a century and a half. The second part carries on semiology of the decor on ceramic from 1835 back to 1675 (Alawite period). First the research covers the shapes inspired from alimental functions and social codes, then on the elements corresponding to numbers, and transcripts drawn according to some hidden codes. The thesis concludes on the specificities of spiritual codes in ancient productions that have gradually disappeared upon the arrival of the European industrial and economic codes.

Esta tese abrange manuscritos inéditos dos cadernos da viagem ao Oriente, de Flaubert, e textos publicados postumamente, a partir do que ele copiou dos seus cadernos logo depois da viagem, fazendo mudanças e acréscimos. Esta tese também abrange cartas que ele escreveu no Oriente. Analiso movimentos da sua escritura e a mobilidade de formas textuais, que migram de cartas para textos da viagem e vice-versa. Ele não quis publicar essas anotações, que constituem um lugar de experiência com a linguagem, uma espécie de laboratório de formas, que depois, com mudanças, ele integra em seus romances. Relaciono esses textos a concepções estéticas da época. Comparo o modo descritivo que Flaubert desenvolve durante a viagem com páginas dos cadernos ilustrados de Delacroix, do Marrocos. Identifico nos textos do Oriente de Flaubert correspondências entre composição literária e composição pictural. Seu olhar e imaginação são informados pela arte orientalista, em voga na Europa, na época. O orientalismo é um elo para a análise de mudanças estéticas que acontecem nas duas artes, literatura e pintura, no século XIX. Escrever durante a viagem se associa à ideia de movimentar um repertório de imagens e, ao mesmo tempo, tornar visível o que o texto evoca / This thesis encompasses Flauberts unpublished manuscripts from his travel notes and copies he made from these travel notes, with a few changes and additions, soon after returning from his journey to the Orient and, moreover, letters written while on this journey. I have analyzed Flauberts writing and the mobility of textual variations that migrate from his letters to travel texts and vice versa. He never wished to publish these notes that are an experience in language, a laboratory for variations, which with some changes, he later integrates into his fiction. I have compared these texts with the aesthetic conceptions at that time. I have also analyzed the descriptive mode that Flaubert developed in the Orient, comparing excerpts from his notes to pages from Delacroixs illustrated travel notes made during his trip to Morocco. I identify in Flauberts texts from the Orient the correspondence with pictorial composition. His viewpoint and imagination are informed by Orientalist art, which was popular in Europe at the time. The Orientalism provides a link for analyzing the aesthetic changes that took place in literature and painting in the XIX century. Writing during travel is associated with the idea of creating a repertory of images while at the same time making visible what is evoked in the text

Esta tese abrange manuscritos inéditos dos cadernos da viagem ao Oriente, de Flaubert, e textos publicados postumamente, a partir do que ele copiou dos seus cadernos logo depois da viagem, fazendo mudanças e acréscimos. Esta tese também abrange cartas que ele escreveu no Oriente. Analiso movimentos da sua escritura e a mobilidade de formas textuais, que migram de cartas para textos da viagem e vice-versa. Ele não quis publicar essas anotações, que constituem um lugar de experiência com a linguagem, uma espécie de laboratório de formas, que depois, com mudanças, ele integra em seus romances. Relaciono esses textos a concepções estéticas da época. Comparo o modo descritivo que Flaubert desenvolve durante a viagem com páginas dos cadernos ilustrados de Delacroix, do Marrocos. Identifico nos textos do Oriente de Flaubert correspondências entre composição literária e composição pictural. Seu olhar e imaginação são informados pela arte orientalista, em voga na Europa, na época. O orientalismo é um elo para a análise de mudanças estéticas que acontecem nas duas artes, literatura e pintura, no século XIX. Escrever durante a viagem se associa à ideia de movimentar um repertório de imagens e, ao mesmo tempo, tornar visível o que o texto evoca / This thesis encompasses Flauberts unpublished manuscripts from his travel notes and copies he made from these travel notes, with a few changes and additions, soon after returning from his journey to the Orient and, moreover, letters written while on this journey. I have analyzed Flauberts writing and the mobility of textual variations that migrate from his letters to travel texts and vice versa. He never wished to publish these notes that are an experience in language, a laboratory for variations, which with some changes, he later integrates into his fiction. I have compared these texts with the aesthetic conceptions at that time. I have also analyzed the descriptive mode that Flaubert developed in the Orient, comparing excerpts from his notes to pages from Delacroixs illustrated travel notes made during his trip to Morocco. I identify in Flauberts texts from the Orient the correspondence with pictorial composition. His viewpoint and imagination are informed by Orientalist art, which was popular in Europe at the time. The Orientalism provides a link for analyzing the aesthetic changes that took place in literature and painting in the XIX century. Writing during travel is associated with the idea of creating a repertory of images while at the same time making visible what is evoked in the text