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Noble dreams, wicked pleasures
Noble dreams, wicked pleasures: orientalism in America, 1870-1930
Holly Edwards; with essays by Brian T. Allen... [et al.]
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, c2000.
ISBN: 069105004X   DDC: 704.94995   LCC: NX503.7   Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass., June 6-Sept. 4,
2000, the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., Oct 1-Dec. 10, 2000,
and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C., Feb. 3-Apr. 23, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-238) and index.

Roots and Others / Oleg Grabar -- A Million and One Nights:
Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 / Holly Edwards -- "The garments of
instruction form the wardrobe of pleasure": American Orientalist
Painting in the 1870s and 1880s / Brian T. Allen -- Speaking Back to
Orientalist Discourse at the World's Columbian Exposition / Zeynep
Celik -- The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic
Popular Culture of the Early 1920s / Steven C. Caton -- Catalogue of
the Exhibition / Holly Edwards.

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Dewey Class: 704.94995 -- Special topics
LCC Number: NX503.7

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: xiii, 242 p. : ill. (some col.), music ; 32 cm.
Edition Info: (pbk. : alk. paper)

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