Brutality and Banditry: Towards the Orientalist Imagery of the Balkans During the 19th Century
Brutality and Banditry: Towards the Orientalist Imagery of the Balkans During the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: The Orientalist image of the wild Balkans had developed since the early nineteenth century, and it reached its peak during the First Balkan War. Orientalism was not reserved solely for representing constructed images of women; it also included aspects of male behavior too. In the Orientalist representation of the Balkans, important spots were occupied by topoi such as brutality and banditry, which were visually represented by artists such as Eugène Delacroix, Jaroslav Čermak, Gottfried Sieben, and Paja Jovanović, as well as in numerous caricatures in German satirical magazines.

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