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Author:

Benjamin, Roger, 1957-

Title:

Orientalist aesthetics : art, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 / Roger Benjamin.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xxi, 352 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Orientalism in art--France.
Orientalism in art--Africa, North.
Painting, French--19th century.
Painting, French--20th century.
Africa, North--In art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Orient or France? nineteenth-century debates -- Renoir and impressionist Orientalism -- A society for Orientalists -- Orientalists in the public eye -- Colonial panoramania -- Traveling scholarships and the academic exotic -- Matisse and modernist Orientalism -- Advancing the indigenous decorative arts -- Mammeri and Racim, painters of the Maghreb -- Colonial museology in Algiers.

ISBN:

9780520222175 (alk. paper)
0520222172 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49225888

LCCN:

2002022627

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)