Orientalism : Delacroix to Klee / Roger Benjamin, curator and editor ; Mounira Khemir, guest curator and contributor, Photography ; Ursula Prunster, guest curator and contributor, Australian art ; Lynne Thornton, contributor.

By:

Benjamin, Roger, 1957-

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Sydney] : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997.Description: iv, 259 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0731313569
9780731313563

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Exhibition catalogs.

DDC classification:

23 709.03074 BEN 13559

LOC classification:

N8217.E88 B46 1997

Summary: Focusing on the art and aesthetic of travel, this magnificent catalog presents over 150 masterpieces of Orientalist paintings ever shown together. They present the artists' views of the European encounter with the Islamic worlds of North Africa and the Middle East. Includes over 30 rare 19th-century photographs and a brief biography of each artist and photographer as well.

Item type: Book

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"Exhibition dates: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 6 December 1997-22 February 1998 [and] Auckland Art Gallery, 20 March-7 June 1998"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256) and index.

Focusing on the art and aesthetic of travel, this magnificent catalog presents over 150 masterpieces of Orientalist paintings ever shown together. They present the artists' views of the European encounter with the Islamic worlds of North Africa and the Middle East. Includes over 30 rare 19th-century photographs and a brief biography of each artist and photographer as well.

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