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Edwards, Holly - Noble dreams, wicked pleasures: orientalism in America, 1870-1930 / Holly Edwards; with essays by Brian T. Allen

Title: Noble dreams, wicked pleasures: orientalism in America, 1870-1930 / Holly Edwards; with essays by Brian T. Allen
Description: Princeton. N.J. : Princeton University Press in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute 2000. 1st Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiii. 242 pages: illustrations (some color). music; 32 cm. Contents: Roots and others / Oleg Grabar -- A million and one nights: Orientalism in America. 1870-1930 / Holly Edwards -- 'The garments of instruction from the wardrobe of pleasure' : American Orientalist painting in the 1870s and 1880s / Brian T. Allen -- Speaking back to Orientalist discourse at the World's Columbian Exposition / Zeynep Çelik -- The sheik : instabilities of race and gender in transatlantic popular culture of the early 1920s / Steven C. Caton -- Catalogue of the exhibition / Holly Edwards. Subjects: Arts. American 19th century; Exhibitions. Arts. American 20th century; Exhibitions. Orientalism in art; Exhibitions. Orientalism in art United States. ISBN: 069105004x.

Keywords: 069105004x

Price: EUR 12.95 = appr. US$ 14.07 Seller: MW Books
- Book number: 348827