“Algerian Women” (Orientalism)

Read: (a) Assia Djebar, “Forbidden Gaze, Severed Sound” (pp. 133-151) (Postface to Women of Algiers in Their Apartment)

(b) Assia Djebar, Excerpt from Women of Algiers in Their Apartment (pp. 29-43)

View: Core archive of paintings by Delacroix plus additional Orientialist paintings

CORE ARCHIVE: Delacroix, Ingres, Picasso

Eugène Delacroix — 1834 Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement

More info. about the 1834 painting in a short video (4 mins.) by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker published on Smarthistory (Public art history website)

Eugène Delacroix — 1837-39 Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement

More info. about both the 1834 and 1837-39 paintings on the detailed Wikipedia page (see also 1832 sketches for the painting)

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres — La grande odalisque (1814)

More info. about the 1814 painting by Ingres in a short video by Bryan Zygmont published on Smarthistory

Pablo Picasso, Women of Algiers (Variation “I”) (1955)

Pablo Picasso, Women of Algiers (Variation “N”) (1955)

More info. about the 15 paintings by Picasso called Women of Algiers on the detailed Wikipedia page

Research: French colonization of Algeria