The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse: The Allure of North Africa and the Near East

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The catalogue of the first major exhibition of Orientalist art in London held at the Royal Academy in 1984 and then at the National Gallery of Art Washington. Illustrated with reproductions of over 100 paintings all illustrated in color. Includes four essays: Western Art and its Encounter with the Islamic World by MaryAnne Stevens; The Orient and the West from Bonaparte to T. E. Lawrence by Robert Irwin; Innocents Abroad: Nineteenth-Century Artists and Travellers in North Africa and the Near East by Caroline Burger; and The Question of Faith: Orientalism Christianity and Islam by Malcolm Warner.