ORIENTALISM IN ART

New York: Abbeville Press, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Among the more remarkable crosscurrents affecting the development of European painting in the 19th and early 20th centuries was the influence of the exotic cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. Initiated by Napoleon's incursion into Egypt in 1798, European artists (both visitors and stay-at-homes) seized on this non-European world to enrich their imaginations and palettes. Peltre's scintillating overview of Orientalism concentrates largely on the French response but also reaches out to an equally telling but briefer consideration of English, German, Italian, and American work. Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. (Inventory #: 75928)