Delacroix’s Moroccans Art and Masculinity【電子書籍】[ Jennifer Olmsted ]

＜p＞＜em＞The Women of Algiers in Their Apartment＜/em＞ is arguably Eug?ne Delacroix’s best-known work from his trip to Morocco in 1832, and the attention scholars have paid to it has obscured a crucial fact about Delacroix’s Moroccan subjects: most of his paintings of North Africa depict men rather than women.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After serving as a diplomat’s companion on a mission to Morocco, Delacroix went on to devote over three-quarters of his massive North African oeuvre to the military prowess, effective leadership, equestrian virtuosity, and elegant dress of Moroccan men. Using the evidence of his writings, sketches, and paintings, Olmsted argues that rather than embodying a typical colonialist fantasy, Delacroix’s paintings of Moroccan men instead show his subjects as models of heroic masculinity and political sovereignty, a position that ran counter to prevailing French attitudes toward North Africans. In this way, ＜em＞Delacroix’s Moroccans＜/em＞ intervenes in the discourse of imperialism to e．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る