LEADER 04378nam 22006614a 450 001 9910455616003321 005 20211028000205.0 010 $a0-520-92440-1 010 $a1-59734-786-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520924406 035 $a(CKB)111087027176498 035 $a(EBL)222887 035 $a(OCoLC)475926605 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000216344 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198999 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216344 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10197085 035 $a(PQKB)11500767 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC222887 035 $a(DE-B1597)520496 035 $a(OCoLC)1086522214 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520924406 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL222887 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048744 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027176498 100 $a20020214d2003 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurn|#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOrientalist aesthetics$b[electronic resource] $eart, colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930 /$fRoger Benjamin 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (394 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-22217-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Orient or France? Nineteenth-Century Debates --$t2. Renoir and Impressionist Orientalism --$t3. A Society for Orientalists --$t4. Orientalists in the Public Eye --$t5. Colonial Panoramania --$t6. Traveling Scholarships and the Academic Exotic --$t7. Matisse and Modernist Orientalism --$t8. Advancing the Indigenous Decorative Arts --$t9. Mammeri and Racim, Painters of the Maghreb --$t10. Colonial Museology in Algiers --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aLavishly 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 Eugène 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-à-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. 606 $aOrientalism in art$zAfrica, North 606 $aOrientalism in art$zFrance 606 $aPainting, French$y19th century 606 $aPainting, French$y20th century 607 $aAfrica, North$vIn art 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOrientalism in art 615 0$aOrientalism in art 615 0$aPainting, French 615 0$aPainting, French 676 $a758/.995 700 $aBenjamin$b Roger$f1957-$0467306 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455616003321 996 $aOrientalist aesthetics$92474649 997 $aUNINA