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

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

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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
"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"--T.p. 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.
Painting, Modern 19th century
Orientalism in art
Europa
New York <NY, 1995>
Middle East In art.

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

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