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STEVENS, MARYANNE (EDITED BY) The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse: The Allure of North Africa and the Near East
Washington D.C. National Gallery of Art. 1984. (ISBN: 0894680757) Soft Cover , 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue, 235 pp. illus. (some col.), biblio.; 28 cm. Exhibition held 1 July to 28 October, 1984. Near fine. Firm binding, clean text. Date handwritten on the title page in a miniscule hand, otherwise unmarked. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Amazingly, Edward Said's Orientalism is not cited in the Bibliography. Heavily criticized (by feminist and anti-racist scholars such as Linda Nochlin), this exhibition catalogue remains a primary source of information on Orientalist art, which reached its apogee in the late nineteenth century along with the rise of European imperialism. Profusely illustrated with colour plates of harems, Arabs on horseback, genre scenes of North Africa and the Middle East. Renoir's highly sexualized "Woman of Algiers or Odalisque" poses on the front cover. Other French artists include the Romantic painters Delacroix and Baron Gros, the (photorealist) Gerome, and the modernist Matisse, who was influenced by Middle Eastern carpets. German and English artists are represented, too, such as Roberts and Lear. A great source of information and visual imagery, despite its shortcomings. CONTENTS include: Western Art and Its Encounter with the Islamic World, by MaryAnne Stevens; The Orient and the West from Bonaparte to T. E. Lawrence, by Robert Irwin; "Innocents Abroad": Nineteenth-Century Artists and Travellers in North Africa and the Near East, by Caroline Bugler; and The Question of Faith: Orientalism, Christianity and Islam, by Malcolm Warner. Very Good.
Offered for US$ 200.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 037412
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