{"product_id":"the-lure-of-the-east-british-orientalist-painting","title":"The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith its unprecedented focus on the history of Orientalism in British art  this handsome book places the British within the story of how the genre was established in the 19th centurya story heretofore dominated by the French. Featuring both well-known and rarely seen paintings  together with sketches and photographs  this volume examines the work of British artists who engaged with Middle Eastern themes over three centuries  from the 1620s to the eclipse of the Ottoman Empire in 1922.  Included are works by Joshua Reynolds  J. F. Lewis  W. H. Hunt  David Wilkie  John Singer Sargent  William Holman Hunt  J.M.W. Turner  Roger Fenton  Andrew Geddes  and Edward Lear. Many of their images are  or purport to be  the result of direct observation of actual places in the Middle East. The book spotlights numerous topics of timely cultural interest  including the cross-pollination of British and Islamic artistic traditions  as well as Western myths about the Islamic world in relation to artists actual experiences.  Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (February 7  April 27  2008) Tate Britain  London (June 4  August 31  2008) Pera Museum  Istanbul  Turkey (October 2008  January 2009) Sharjah Art Museum  Sharjah  United Arab Emirates (late February  April 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944987390005,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300138989","price":226.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300138986_19f53f1c-d65f-4206-b46d-6157690d2711.jpg?v=1770151154","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-lure-of-the-east-british-orientalist-painting","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}