The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse: European Painters in North Africa and the Near East
London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1984. Hardbound. Blue cloth boards with color pictorial DJ, 256pp, profuse color and BW illustrations. VG, small portion of dampstaining in bottom left corner, only visible on boards cloth and back of DJ. Item #128340
From the jacket--This catalog of the first major exhibition of Orientalist art in London, held at the Royal Academy if 1984 and then at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., draws together over 100 paintings by such illustrious artists such as Delacroix, Renoir, Holman Hunt and Matisse, and provides a fascinating insight into a world they found initially alien, but ultimately captivating. Every painting is illustrated and together they provide a dazzling visual record of the imaginative shift from early romantic evocations of harems and colorful Arab ceremonies through the almost photographic documentations of the mid-nineteenth century, to the exploratory innovations that prepared the way for major developments in twentieth-century art. The catalogue is supplemented by a comprehensive bibliography, glossary, and chronology.
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