Orientalism Definition

ôrēent'lizəm
noun
Any trait, quality, mannerism, etc. usually associated with people of the East.
Webster's New World
The study of Eastern culture.
Webster's New World
The adoption by Western artists of decorative elements evoking Asian or North African cultures.
American Heritage
A viewpoint, as ascribed to some in the West, in which Asia or specif. the Arabic Middle East is seen variously as exotic, mysterious, irrational, etc.
Webster's New World
In the figurative arts, the tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
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Origin of Orientalism

  • From French orientalisme, from oriental (“eastern, Oriental").

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Orientalism Sentence Examples

  • Gem-engraving and jewelry follow similar lines; pottery-painting for the most part remains geometrical throughout, with crude survivals of Mycenaean curvilinear forms. Those Aegean influences, however, which had been predominant in the later Bronze Age, and had never wholly ceased, revived, as Hellenism matured and spread, and slowly repelled the mixed Phoenician orientalism.

  • His most recent books include Orientalism, The A to Z of Postmodern Life and the co-authored international bestseller Why Do People Hate America?

  • Both share a passion for romantic Orientalism and have frequently featured together in important books on Romanticism and the East.

  • Its arrival, whilst reading the late Edward W Said's seminal book Orientalism, was timely.

  • But such a priori slicing up of European Orientalism needs to be given a better and more convincing reason.

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