Orientalism : Orient in Western Art - Hardcover

Gerard-Georges Lemaire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3848003171 ISBN 13: 9783848003174

Publisher: Ullmann Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Ever since its discovery by traders and seamen in the Early Modern age, the world of Islam has been an important source of cultural inspiration for Western civilization. Geographically so near, culturally so different, the countries of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa have influenced both the Oriental vogue of the baroque period and also the popular Oriental genre in the fine arts. At the same time, the mysterious aura of the Orient has repeatedly served as a romantically idealized counterpoint and escape route for European fantasies and longings. From the early turquets to the glory of the 19th century to the Tunisian images of August Macke and Paul Klee, this elaborately appointed volume presents the history of Oriental images in painting and follows the traces of a phenomenon that remains fascinating even today.

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Gerard-Georges Lemaire is a French art historian

About this edition

• Publisher: Ullmann Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3848003171
• ISBN 13: 9783848003174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360