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I have always found writing about Orientalism in illustration hard. It's hard, because every picture becomes its own Arabian Nights; threatening to whisk you off into a different realm. Self-contained themes lead you away into another ideaaand another, and another. Before you know it, you have leapt so far into a single image, clambering after ethereal motifs, that you cannot see your original starting point andalike a magic carpet that flies only so long as you believe in itayou start to sink.

The perils of this journey are manifold. You are, after all, talking about big ideas in small pictures. And they can be vague ideas, ideas that mean different things to different people; contradictory, mellifluous, beguiling.

In the context of illustration, there is an additional challenge. Orientalist picturesaespecially the ones that accompany fairy talesaare ostensibly fiction. And yet, they represent non-fictional ideas and attitudes also. In one sense, these are drawings without a line. The "real pictures" awash in fiction; the fictive pictures no less real. Love them too much, and you're no better than the racist Victorians; reducing complex cultures to one-dimensional caricatures. Refuse to love them, and not only do you ignore some terrific art, but a major part of history, too.

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Posted: September 4th, 2010
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