Russian Orientalism In A Global Context by Maria Taroutina (.ePUB)
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Russian Orientalism in a global context: Hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740-1940 (Rethinking Art’s Histories) edited by Maria Taroutina, Allison Leigh
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Overview: Russian Orientalism in a global context examines the various ways in which Russia’s artistic praxis was affected by encounters – both real and imagined – with the cultures and representational and material traditions of the so-called East or Vostok.
Following the Napoleonic wars, the Russian Empire’s expansionist campaigns led to the annexation of new lands in the Caucasus and Central Asia, resulting in the assimilation of religiously and ethnically diverse groups of people. However, given the country’s perpetually conflicted self-identification as neither fully European nor Asian, the demarcations between “self” and “other” remained ambiguous and elusive, resulting in an Orientalist mode that was prone to hybridity, syncretism, and even self-Orientalization.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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