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Noble dreams, wicked pleasures : orientalism in America, 1870-1930 / Holly Edwards ; with essays by Brian T. Allen [and others].

By: Edwards, Holly
Contributor(s): Allen, Brian T | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) | Mint Museum of Art
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xiii, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 32 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 069105004X (pbk. : alk. paper); 0691050031 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Arts, American -- Exhibitions | Arts, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions | Arts, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Orientalism in art -- United States -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 704.9/4995 LOC classification: NX503.7 | .E355 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.
Contents:
Roots and others / Oleg Grabar -- A million and one nights : Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 / Holly Edwards -- "The garments of instruction from the wardrobe of pleasure" : American Orientalist painting in the 1870s and 1880s / Brian T. Allen -- Speaking back to Orientalist discourse at the World's Columbian Exposition / Zeynep Çelik -- The sheik : instabilities of race and gender in transatlantic popular culture of the early 1920s / Steven C. Caton -- Catalogue of the exhibition / Holly Edwards.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West Oversize NX503.7 .E355 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902282058

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 6-Sept. 4, 2000, the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., Oct 1-Dec. 10, 2000, and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C., Feb. 3-Apr. 23, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index.

Roots and others / Oleg Grabar -- A million and one nights : Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 / Holly Edwards -- "The garments of instruction from the wardrobe of pleasure" : American Orientalist painting in the 1870s and 1880s / Brian T. Allen -- Speaking back to Orientalist discourse at the World's Columbian Exposition / Zeynep Çelik -- The sheik : instabilities of race and gender in transatlantic popular culture of the early 1920s / Steven C. Caton -- Catalogue of the exhibition / Holly Edwards.

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