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Orientalism and the Photographs of Eugène Delacroix: An Exploration of Vision, Identity, and Difference in Nineteenth Century France

DeVito, Elizabeth J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1306869542

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2011, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Art History (Fine Arts).
This thesis investigates some of the experimental Orientalist photographs of Eugène Delacroix from 1854. I explore these works through a post-colonial, feminist, and Lacanian psychoanalytical perspective, in order to understand how these unusual photographs operate in nineteenth century, bourgeois France. The first chapter discusses the images of Delacroix, who is canonized as a painter, as they both create and are produced by a newly emergent Spectacle culture supported by the rapidly proliferating, fairly young, medium of photography. The second chapter recognizes the bodies of the nude female figures as sites of imperialist and misogynistic ideologies to develop, which in turn justifies colonial enterprises in the Near East. The final chapter seeks to explore the materiality of the photograph, or more specifically, the nude female image, seen as both Romantically traditional and erotic via the gaze. This thesis is therefore a theoretical study of Delacroix’s photographic objects as producers of Orientalist and imperialistic ideologies, formulated out of the Western imagination.
Jaleh Mansoor (Committee Chair)
Joseph Lamb (Committee Member)
Laura Larson (Committee Member)
130 p.
Art History
Delacroix; Photography; Orientalism; Psychoanalysis; Postcolonialism; Feminism

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  • DeVito, E. J. (2011). Orientalism and the Photographs of Eugène Delacroix: An Exploration of Vision, Identity, and Difference in Nineteenth Century France [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1306869542

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • DeVito, Elizabeth. Orientalism and the Photographs of Eugène Delacroix: An Exploration of Vision, Identity, and Difference in Nineteenth Century France. 2011. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1306869542.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • DeVito, Elizabeth. "Orientalism and the Photographs of Eugène Delacroix: An Exploration of Vision, Identity, and Difference in Nineteenth Century France." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1306869542

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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