Language of French Orientalist Painting (Studies in Art History)

By Helene Gill

This text focuses on three characteristic proponents of the Orientalist genre in French painting of the 19th and early-20th centuries: Horace Vernet, Eugene Fromentin and Etienne Dinet. It seeks to raise fundamental questions such as: is there a right to represent the non-European Other?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773467645
• ISBN13: 9780773467644
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"