Noble dreams, wicked pleasures
Subtitle: orientalism in America, 1870-1930
By: Holly Edwards ; with essays by Brian T. Allen ... [et al.].
Contributors: Allen, Brian T.; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.; Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.); Mint Museum of Art.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Arts, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Arts, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Orientalism in art -- United States -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "This book considers the ways in which urban, mercantile, Protestant America depicted the Islamic world of the Middle East and North Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Using a wide variety of sources - paintings, decorative arts, interior design, and numerous examples from advertising and popular culture - the authors demonstrate the American representations of the Orient often revealed more about prevailing American attitudes than about the foreign cultures they purported to depict."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.