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The essay by Holly Edwards, called “A Million and One Nights: Orientalism in America, 18701930,” was written as the introduction for an exhibition about American Orientalist artwork, and gives a great overview of the key images and ideas of American Orientalist art in the early twentieth century.
The essay I wrote, called “A Meeting of Two Minds,” looks at a handful of artists, an art critic, and an art historian who also thought about the intersection of Islamic art and contemporary art, but in the 1970s. Here’s a little anecdote about my experience writing that essay: In that essay, I made the decision not to use the concept of “Orientalism” as a major framing idea for my essay, because I was of the opinion that the artists were doing something slightly different. However, I later met one of the artists I wrote about in the essay and his first criticism of my essay was that I had forgotten to discuss “Orientalism!”
So, what do you think? How did late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American Orientalist art compare (similarly or differently) to the work of American artists in the 1970s? In what ways is “Orientalism” a useful category–or not?
Write a 300-word response thinking through some of these questions. And please don’t hesitate to be critical of my own essay: the more feedback the better!