| Titre | L'ombre de l'islam | |
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| Auteur | François Pouillon | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | vol. 75, no. 1, 1988 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Sur l'art |
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| Page | 24-34 | |
| Résumé |
r étrange et primitive. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Résumé anglais |
The Shadow of Islam. This article seeks to explain the failure of Orientalist painting to give an adequate account of Islamic religious feeling. Firstly, the European sensibility approaches the question in a spirit of agnosticism ; and secondly, Islamic societies forbid the representation of living creatures, especially in the mosque. With the coming of the European imperial era, the same blindness was perpetuated, despite some methodical attempts to do better. Among the most remarkable are those by Jean-Leon Gerome, one of the masters of academicism, and Etienne Dinet, who, in his effort to sympathize and understand, converted to Islam. The failure of these endeavours seems to stem from the inability of Orientalism to grasp Islam as an object of history rather than as the attribute of an immemorial essence, destined to remain alien and primitive. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/arss_0335-5322_1988_num_75_1_2866 |
