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The Orientalists : Delacroix to Matisse : European painters in North Africa and the Near East / edited by Mary Anne Stevens.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984Description: 256 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0297784358
  • 029778417X
Subject(s):
Contents:
Western art and its excounter with the Islamic world / MaryAnne Stevens -- The Orient and the West from Bonaparte to T.E. Lawrence / Robert Irwin -- 'Innocents abroad': Nineteenth-century artists and travellers in North Africa and the Near East / Caroline Bugler -- The question of faith: Orientalism, Christianity and Islam / Malcolm Warner -- Catalogue -- A chronology of events, personalities and publications, c. 1798- c. 1922.

Catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-254).

Western art and its excounter with the Islamic world / MaryAnne Stevens -- The Orient and the West from Bonaparte to T.E. Lawrence / Robert Irwin -- 'Innocents abroad': Nineteenth-century artists and travellers in North Africa and the Near East / Caroline Bugler -- The question of faith: Orientalism, Christianity and Islam / Malcolm Warner -- Catalogue -- A chronology of events, personalities and publications, c. 1798- c. 1922.