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100	1		_aBenjamin, Roger, _d1957- _eauthor. _9389065
245	1	0	_aOrientalist aesthetics : _bart, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 / _cRoger Benjamin.
264		1	_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c[2003]
264		4	_c©2003
300			_axxi, 352 pages, 16 pages of plates : _billustrations (some colour), map ; _c29 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aOrient 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.
520			_a"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. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of French Orientalist Painters provides a critical context for understanding a lush body of work, including that of indigenous Algerian artists never before discussed in English. The painter-critic Eugene Fromentin tackled the unfamiliar atmospheric conditions of the desert, Etienne Dinet sought a more truthful mode of ethnographic painting by converting to Islam, and Mohammed Racim melded the Persian miniature with Western perspective. Benjamin considers armchair Orientalists concocting dreams from studio bric-a-brac, naturalists who spent years living in the oases of the Sahara, and Fauve and Cubist travelers who transposed the discoveries of the Parisian Salons to create decors of indigenous figures and tropical plants. The network that linked these artists with writers and museum curators was influenced by a complex web of tourism, rapid travel across the Mediterranean, and the march of modernity into a colonized culture. Orientalist Aesthetics shows how colonial policy affected aesthetics, how Europeans visualized cultural difference, and how indigenous artists in turn manipulated Western visual languages."--Publisher description.
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650		0	_aOrientalism in art _zFrance _9653103
650		0	_aOrientalism in art _zAfrica, North _9653107
650		0	_aPainting, French _y19th century _9321858
650		0	_aPainting, French _y20th century _9329179
651		0	_aAfrica, North _vIn art _9783988
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2002022627.html
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