TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired two objects through the annual selection process of its art acquisition group, The Apollo Society. This year’s curatorial theme was African art, and the final selections represent the work of a contemporary Moroccan-born photographer and an unknown 19th-century sculptor from what is now Tanzania. The compelling photograph La Grande Odalisque, by Lalla Essaydi, references Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ famous 1814 reclining nude, La Grande Odalisque. That oil painting, residing in the Louvre in Paris, belongs to a genre that came to be known as Orientalism. The term describes the exotic and sensual way in which 19th- and early 20th-century Western artists (mostly male) depicted the Muslim culture of North Africa and the Middle East. In her photo series Les Femmes du Maroc, which includes Le Grande Odalisque, Essaydi reacts to and in some cases recreates these Orientalist i