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Orientalist aesthetics : art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 2003
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| Online Access: | http://kunst.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/jstor-ebooks-art/www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt198938m |
| Related Items: | Print version:
Orientalist aesthetics |
| Author Notes: | Roger Benjamin |
| E-Book Packages: | JSTOR E-Books in Art, Design and Photography |
| Summary: | Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 352 pages, 16 pages of plates) |
| ISBN: | 9780585467771 0585467773 9780520924406 0520924401 9781597347860 1597347868 0520222172 |
