The Orient in Western Art

by Lacambre, Genevieve

• ISBN13: 9783895088926
• ISBN10: 3895088927
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Konemann

Summary

The oriental motif is a recurring theme in western painting. From the Renaissance with its awakening interest in ancient cultures and art to the 18th century with its Grand Tours and "Turkish fashion," the oriental theme has not only documented artists' travels to the East, but has projected the wishes, desires and imagination of the West. From ethnographic etchings to exaggerated displays of the sultans' splendor, this paradox of fact and fantasy culminated in the 19th century with the genre Orientalism. Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, European colonization, and archaeological excavations opened up the region to numerous artists such as Decamps. Delacroix, Fromentin, Ingres, Lear, and Hunt, whose most famous works express oriental imagery. The Orient in Western Art presents the emergence and development of an artistic motif accompanied by explanations of social and cultural history. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Gerard-Georges Lemaire worked for the European Union as an expert in art education. Lemaire is also a translator and curator for numerous exhibits

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction: The Paradoxes of Europe's Fascination with the Orient	p. 11
Orientalism from the 15th to the 17th Century	p. 19
Renaissance Art and the Orient	p. 20
Venice--Where East meets West	p. 20
Renaissance Fact and Fantasy	p. 20
Near and Far--the Orient During the 17th Century	p. 30
Fear and Fascination	p. 30
Art and Uncertainty	p. 35
Rembrandt's Orient	p. 40
Orientalism in the 18th Century	p. 47
The Turkish Fashion	p. 48
Oriental Splendors in the Heart of Paris	p. 57
Turkish Masquerades and Languorous Sultanas	p. 57
The First Orientalists	p. 66
Pomp and Circumstances in the Drawings of Van Mour	p. 66
A Swiss at the Court of the Grand Sultan	p. 68
A Knight of Malta at the Court of the Caliph	p. 73
Constantinople Through the Eyes of Jean-Baptiste Hilair	p. 76
Cassas and Goethe	p. 82
Melling: Artist, and Architect to His Highness	p. 82
Minor Artists of Pera	p. 85
Orientalism in the 19th Century	p. 87
The Conquest of Egypt	p. 88
Egypt's Appeal before Bonaparte	p. 88
Bonaparte's Egypt	p. 94
Glorifying Bonaparte's Campaign	p. 102
Egypt and the Arts	p. 109
The New Grand Tour	p. 121
Recreating Ancient Egypt	p. 140
Spain, Gateway to the East	p. 144
Art and the Eastern Question	p. 146
The Greek War of Independence	p. 146
The Rediscovery of Greece	p. 146
Artists and Political Commitment	p. 148
French Colonization of the Maghreb	p. 153
Algeria	p. 153
Morocco	p. 164
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land	p. 174
The Challenge of Palestine	p. 174
William Holman Hunt	p. 182
Constantinople	p. 188
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres	p. 198
Eugene Delacroix	p. 204
A Painter's Paradise	p. 220
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps	p. 221
Theodore Chasseriau	p. 223
Eugene Fromentin	p. 229
Jean-Leon Gerome	p. 238
Felix Ziem	p. 248
Gustave Moreau	p. 252
Orientalism and the Impressionists	p. 256
Orientalists from the Orient	p. 266
The Last Orientalists	p. 270
Orientalism Today	p. 281
A Shift in the Center of Gravity	p. 282
Victor Prouve, the Precursor	p. 284
Emile Bernard, the First Modern Orientalist	p. 284
Kandinsky in Tunisia	p. 287
Pablo Picasso and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon	p. 293
Henri Matisse and the Image in the Carpet	p. 295
Kees Van Dongen, Charles Camoin, and Albert Marquet in the Maghreb	p. 302
Louis Moilliet, Paul Klee, and August Macke in Tunis	p. 310
Le Corbusier and the Light of the Orient	p. 320
Raoul Dufy in the Garden of the Pasha	p. 321
Wyndham Lewis, a Filibuster in Barbary	p. 321
New Visions of the Orient	p. 322
Biographies	p. 335
Bibliography	p. 352
Glossary	p. 356
Index	p. 358
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