It’s been 27 years since art historian Linda Nochlin published her essay “The Imaginary Orient,” a critique of sexist and racist depictions of “brown and black folk” by Western artists such as Jean-Léon Gérôme. Back then, “I was put off to the depths of my being,” Nochlin said of Gérôme’s paintings at a recent panel [...]
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Tags: art history, colonialism, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Lalla Essaydi, Linda Nochlin, Mary Roberts, Orientalism
The films we screen at the Getty go hand in hand with the art on view. Curating film series related to exhibitions is exciting, but it can also be challenging. How, for example, do you plan a movie event around a Japanese lacquer box? By connecting with a story—scenes from The Tale of Genji—that adorn [...]
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Tags: Jean-Léon Gérôme, movies, Orientalism, silent films
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