EAST WEST

Brushing orientalism

London exhibit shows West’s desire for superiority and control over the East

by ramintork
08-Aug-2008 (2 comments)
"The Lure of the East" exhibition at Tate Britain is currently showing paintings made by British artists of the ‘Orient’ (4th June – 31st August 2008). In this context ‘Orient’ meant those parts of the eastern Mediterranean world, which could be accessed relatively easy, particularly after the development of steamboat and rail travel in the 1830s: Egypt, Palestine and Turkey but predominantly Muslim world that was under the Turkish Ottoman Empire coming up to our own Iranian doorstep>>>