The Orient in western art / Gérard-Georges Lemaire ; with a preface by Geneviève Lacambre ; [translation from the French, Harriet de Blanco ... and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lemaire, Gérard-Georges.

Standardized Title:

Univers des orientalistes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Orientalism in art--Europe.

Orientalism in art.

Painting, European.

Europe.

Physical Description:

360 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Cologne : Könemann, [2000]

Summary:

The oriental motif is a recurring theme in western painting. From the Renaissance with its awakening interest in ancient cultures and art to the 18th century with its Grand Tours and "Turkish fashion," the oriental theme has not only documented artists' travels to the East, but has projected the wishes, desires and imagination of the West. From ethnographic etchings to exaggerated displays of the sultans' splendor, this paradox of fact and fantasy culminated in the 19th century with the genre Orientalism. Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, European colonization, and archaeological excavations opened up the region to numerous artists such as Decamps. Delacroix, Fromentin, Ingres, Lear, and Hunt, whose most famous works express oriental imagery. The Orient in Western Art presents the emergence and development of an artistic motif accompanied by explanations of social and cultural history.

Contents:

Introduction: The Paradoxes of Europe's Fascination with the Orient 11

Orientalism from the 15th to the 17th Century 19

Renaissance Art and the Orient 20

Venice

Where East meets West 20

Renaissance Fact and Fantasy 20

Near and Far

the Orient During the 17th Century 30

Fear and Fascination 30

Art and Uncertainty 35

Rembrandt's Orient 40

Orientalism in the 18th Century 47

The Turkish Fashion 48

Oriental Splendors in the Heart of Paris 57

Turkish Masquerades and Languorous Sultanas 57

The First Orientalists 66

Pomp and Circumstances in the Drawings of Van Mour 66

A Swiss at the Court of the Grand Sultan 68

A Knight of Malta at the Court of the Caliph 73

Constantinople Through the Eyes of Jean-Baptiste Hilair 76

Cassas and Goethe 82

Melling: Artist, and Architect to His Highness 82

Minor Artists of Pera 85

Orientalism in the 19th Century 87

The Conquest of Egypt 88

Egypt's Appeal before Bonaparte 88

Bonaparte's Egypt 94

Glorifying Bonaparte's Campaign 102

Egypt and the Arts 109

The New Grand Tour 121

Recreating Ancient Egypt 140

Spain, Gateway to the East 144

Art and the Eastern Question 146

The Greek War of Independence 146

The Rediscovery of Greece 146

Artists and Political Commitment 148

French Colonization of the Maghreb 153

Algeria 153

Morocco 164

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 174

The Challenge of Palestine 174

William Holman Hunt 182

Constantinople 188

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres 198

Eugene Delacroix 204

A Painter's Paradise 220

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps 221

Theodore Chasseriau 223

Eugene Fromentin 229

Jean-Leon Gerome 238

Felix Ziem 248

Gustave Moreau 252

Orientalism and the Impressionists 256

Orientalists from the Orient 266

The Last Orientalists 270

Orientalism Today 281

A Shift in the Center of Gravity 282

Victor Prouve, the Precursor 284

Emile Bernard, the First Modern Orientalist 284

Kandinsky in Tunisia 287

Pablo Picasso and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon 293

Henri Matisse and the Image in the Carpet 295

Kees Van Dongen, Charles Camoin, and Albert Marquet in the Maghreb 302

Louis Moilliet, Paul Klee, and August Macke in Tunis 310

Le Corbusier and the Light of the Orient 320

Raoul Dufy in the Garden of the Pasha 321

Wyndham Lewis, a Filibuster in Barbary 321

New Visions of the Orient 322.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-351) and index.

ISBN:

3895088927

OCLC:

47029728