Title: Renoir and Algeria /
Authors: Benjamin, Roger, 1957-; Renoir, Auguste, 1841-1919; Prochaska, David.; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.; Dallas Museum of Art.; Institut du monde arabe (France).
Publisher: Yale University Press ; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Renoir, Auguste, Exhibitions.; Renoir, Auguste, Travel Algeria Exhibitions.; Orientalism in art Exhibitions.; Algeria In art Exhibitions.
Abstract: Renoir made two journeys to Algeria, in 1881 & 1882. He was the only Impressionist to paint Orientalist themes, but this aspect of his work has been little studied. This book places Renoir in the unfamiliar context of the French Orientalist tradition.
Contents: Introduction : the Impressionist as orientalist -- Odalisques and homages : Renoir's studio Orientalism, 1870-75 -- Renoir in Algiers : the landscape paintings -- From the studio to the street : Renoir's Algiers figure paintings -- Afterimages : Algerian echoes in Renoir's late work -- The other Algeria : beyond Renoir's Algiers / David Prochaska -- Appendix : Renoir's letters concerning Algeria.