Geneviéve Lacambre Books

The oriental motif is a recurring theme in western painting. From the Renaissance with its awakening interest in ancient cultures and art to the 18th century with its Grand Tours and "Turkish fashion," the oriental theme has not only documented artists' travels to the East, but has projected the wishes, desires and imagination of the West. From ethnographic etchings to exaggerated displays of the sultans' splendor, this paradox of fact and fantasy culminated in the 19th century with the genre Orientalism. Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, European colonization, and archaeological excavations opened up the region to numerous artists such as Decamps. Delacroix, Fromentin, Ingres, Lear, and Hunt, whose most famous works express oriental imagery. The Orient in Western Art presents the emergence and development of an artistic motif accompanied by explanations of social and cultural history.

Evoking the mysterious world of Gustave Moreau, Marcel Proust writes: "His house was almost a museum, his person was already almost just the place where a work was accomplished." By deciding to enlarge his house on Rue de la Rochefoucauld in 1895 with the construction of large studios necessary for the exhibition of his paintings, Gustave Moreau creates an exemplary work. The museum, where the spirit of the original presentation is meticulously preserved, still allows, a century later, "to observe the sum of work and efforts of the artist during his life" and, thanks to the recently restored rooms of the first-floor apartment, to grasp the intimate personality of the symbolist painter, a mediator between tradition and the innovations of our century.

Dieses Buch verfolgt die Entwicklung des orientalischen Motivs von der venezianischen Darstellung der Renaissance und den ersten Beispielen der türkischen Mode bis zur Blütezeit des 19. Jahrhunderts und den Tunis-Bildern von August Macke und Paul Klee.

Geïllustreerd / Illustrated / Illustré / Illustriert / 9782844590015 / Oriental art / Frans / French / Français / Französisch / hard cover / dust jacket / 28 x 32 cm / 360 .pp /