Title: The Orientalists : western artists in Arabia, the Sahara, Persia & India /
Authors: Davies, Kristian.
Publisher: Layfaroh,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Orientalism in art Europe.; Orientalism in art United States.; Painting, European; Painting, American; Orientalism in art.; Exoticism in art.
Abstract: Gustav Bauernfeind, Charles Bargue, Vahan Barooshian, Leon Belly, Leonce Benedite, Hippolyte Berteaux, Napolean Bonaparte, Martin Booth, Eugene Boudin, Fawn S. Brodie, Jean-Louis Burckhardt, St. Richard F. Burton, Eugen Bracht, Frederick Arthur Bridgman.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Léon Belly : Anatomy of a masterpiece -- A lost masterpiece -- The desert and the caravan -- Gustav Bauernfeind : A master in exile -- Kayf : Leisure and the pleasures of the pipe -- Vasily V. Vereshchagin : An addiction to truth -- Ilya Repin : Zaporozhye cossacks -- Streets and marketplace : Lush bazaars to dusty villages -- Four lives : Jean-Louis Burckhardt, Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, Lady Jane Digby el-Mezrab, Arthur Rimbaud -- Jean-Léon Gérôme : The Napoleon series -- The armed guard -- Women : From the unseen to the fully exposed -- Faith : Images of piety and prayer -- Jean-Léon Gérôme's The whirling dervishes -- James Tissot : The unlikely orientalist -- Epilogue.