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Orientalism in art / Christine Peltre ; translated from the French by John Goodman.
Fine Arts Library N8217.E88 P4513 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peltre, Christine.
- Standardized Title:
- Orientalistes. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Exoticism in art--Europe.
- Art, European.
- Art, Modern--19th century--Europe.
- Art, European--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Exoticism in art.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm
- Edition:
- English-language edition, first edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abbeville Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Nineteenth-century Europe was fascinated by the Orient. Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1798 initiated this phenomenon, and its history included the Greek uprising against the Turks in 1821 and the French taking of Algiers in 1830. Artists of the period, too, were captivated by these events, and the rich body of imagery they produced is the subject of this volume.
- Author Christine Peltre's elegant text retraces Orientalism's artistic history, in which the French and British schools predominated. The "high poetry" of the Romantics' Orient strove for dramatic effect, as the works of David Roberts, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, and Eugene Delacroix attest. A different brand of imagery was produced by the "ethnographic gaze" of the century's middle years, practiced by artists such as John Frederick Lewis, Eugene Fromentin, Jean-Leon Gerome, A. D. Ingres, and Adolphe Monticelli. Work of this kind was eventually superseded by a "third style", a fusion of European and Eastern elements, as seen in the work of August Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse.
- Witnesses to a history that they influenced in subtle ways through their imagery, the Orientalist painters also produced a history of their own, that of a spiritual and formal quest to find in the "East" the ideal of "primitive" purity. Orientalism in Art covers all these facets, making it an indispensable volume for art historians and anyone with a passion for Orientalist art.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0789204592
- OCLC:
- 39307469
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