Egypt
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- New Book: Nature And Empire In Ottoman Egypt (interview)
Jadaliyya Alan Mikhail, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Alan Mikhail: In the most general sense, I wrote this book because...
- Exhibition: De Delacroix à Kandinsky, L'orientalism En Europe
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) Following recent exhibitions of British orientalist painting in London and of the work of French orientalist painter Jean- Léon Gérôme in Paris, the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels has had the...
- New Galleries At Cleveland Museum Of Art
Art Daily After a five-year hiatus, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) collections from the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Egypt and Africa, as well as works from Late Antiquity, the Byzantine Empire and the European Middle Ages, will return to public...
- Exhibition: Napoleon On The Nile
Art Daily The Snug Harbor Cultural Center presents the exhibit Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt through June 15. This spring the Museum will focus on the Description de l’Egypte, the seminal multi-volume work that...
- Egypt During The Ottoman Era
Asharq Alawsat (Ayman Hamed) The Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture (affiliated to the Ministry of Culture in Egypt) in cooperation with the Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) in Turkey recently concluded an international conference...
Egypt
Tacoma Art Museum Presents Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire
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Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition Oasis: Western Dreams of the Ottoman Empire from the Dahesh Museum of Art features a survey of nineteenth-century Western artists’ responses to the diverse cultures of the former Ottoman Empire. The exhibition is on view Saturday, September 20, 2008 through Sunday, January 4, 2009.
Napoleon’s military campaign in Egypt (1798–1801) sparked Western interest in the East, particularly the countries of the Ottoman Empire, an area extending from Turkey and Greece through the Middle East and North Africa. European and American artists became fascinated with what was then known as “the Orient” and the art movement known as Orientalism grew out of this preoccupation.
“Reality and fantasy blend in the works on view in this exhibition,” said Margaret Bullock, Curator of Collections and Special Exhibitions. “Orientalist works are full of rich detail and lush colors based on fact but often romanticized or recombined to suit the artist’s fancy.”
Oasis, organized by the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York, includes more than sixty Orientalist paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, drawings, and books. The exhibition provides important historic and cultural perspectives on the ways in which Western artists depicted, and sometimes distorted, the many cultures of the Ottoman Empire. It also highlights the power these images had, and continue to have, on the Western imagination.
- New Book: Nature And Empire In Ottoman Egypt (interview)
Jadaliyya Alan Mikhail, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya: What made you write this book? Alan Mikhail: In the most general sense, I wrote this book because...
- Exhibition: De Delacroix à Kandinsky, L'orientalism En Europe
Al Ahram Weekly (David Tresilian) Following recent exhibitions of British orientalist painting in London and of the work of French orientalist painter Jean- Léon Gérôme in Paris, the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in Brussels has had the...
- New Galleries At Cleveland Museum Of Art
Art Daily After a five-year hiatus, the Cleveland Museum of Art’s (CMA) collections from the ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Egypt and Africa, as well as works from Late Antiquity, the Byzantine Empire and the European Middle Ages, will return to public...
- Exhibition: Napoleon On The Nile
Art Daily The Snug Harbor Cultural Center presents the exhibit Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt through June 15. This spring the Museum will focus on the Description de l’Egypte, the seminal multi-volume work that...
- Egypt During The Ottoman Era
Asharq Alawsat (Ayman Hamed) The Egyptian Supreme Council of Culture (affiliated to the Ministry of Culture in Egypt) in cooperation with the Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) in Turkey recently concluded an international conference...