Title & Author:

Picturing the Middle East : a hundred years of European Orientalism : a symposium.

Publication:

New York : Dahesh Museum, ©1996.

Description:

ix, 81 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"These papers were originally presented at a symposium on November 3, 1995, organized by the Dahesh Museum in conjunction with the exhibition, Picturing the Middle East : a hundred years of Orientalism."--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references.
Why some Orientalists traveled to the East : some sobering statistics / Gerald M. Ackerman -- Orientalist photography and its "mistaken" pictures / Julia Ballerini -- The Virgin and the Sphinx : Merson's Rest on the flight into Egypt / Eric M. Zafran -- Femme fatale or caring mother? : the Orientalist woman's struggle for dignity / Ilene Susan Fort -- The poetics and politics of Delacroix's representation of the harem in Women of Algiers in their apartment / Mary J. Harper -- Beauties in the eyehole : the voyeur's view of Ingres's Turkish bath / James Thompson.

ISBN:

0965479307 (paperback)
9780965479301 (paperback)

Subject:

Exoticism in art Congresses.
Middle East in art Congresses.
Art, Modern 19th century Congresses.
Art, European 20th century Congresses.
Exotisme dans l'art Congrès.
Art 19e siècle Congrès.
Art, European
Art, Modern
Exoticism in art
Orientalismus
Art Europe 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Exotisme Dans l'art Congrès.
Orientalisme (art) Congrès.
Europa
New York <NY, 1995>

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Conference papers (document genres)
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Dahesh Museum.

Hundred years of European Orientalism
100 years of European Orientalism

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218580
Call No.: DS61.85 .P5 1996
Status: Available