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Roger Benjamin Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930.(Book Review)
From:
The Art Bulletin
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March 1, 2004| Author:
Bohrer, Frederick
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ROGER BENJAMIN
Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 352 pp.; 16 color ills., 123 b/w. $49.95
Scholars of Western imagery of lands and peoples beyond the conventional West occupy a position in the study of 19th- and 20th-century art both central and marginal, both straightforward and uneasy. Their focus is a class of art and visual culture that is by definition ...
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