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French Women Orientalist Artists, 1861-1956 - Cross-Cultural Contacts and Depictions of Difference (Hardcover)
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French Women Orientalist Artists, 1861-1956 - Cross-Cultural Contacts and Depictions of Difference (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Art
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This book is the first full-length study dedicated to French women
Orientalist artists. Mary Kelly has gathered primary documentation
relating to seventy-two women artists whose works of art can be
placed in the canon of French Orientalism between 1861 and 1956.
Bringing these artists together for the first time and presenting
close contextual analyses of works of art, attention is given to
artists' cross-cultural interactions with painted/sculpted
representations of the Maghreb particularly in Algeria, Tunisia and
Morocco. Using an interdisciplinary 'open platform of discussion'
approach, Kelly builds on established theory which places emphases
on the gendered gaze. This entails a discussion on women's painted
perspectives of and contacts with Muslim women as well as various
Maghrebi cultures and land-all the while remaining mindful of the
subject position of the French artist and the problematic issues
which can arise when discussing European-made 'ethnographic'
scenes. Kelly argues that French women's perspectives of the
Maghreb differed from the male gaze and were informed by their
artistic training and social positions in Europe. In so doing,
French women's socio-cultural modernity is also examined. Moreover,
executed between 1861 and 1956, the works of art presented show
influences of Modernism; therefore, this book also pays close
attention to progressive Realism and Naturalism in art and the
Orientalist shift into Modernist subject matter and form. Through
this research into French women Orientalists, Kelly engages with
important discussions on the crossing view of the historical female
other with the cultural other, artistic hybridity and influence in
art as well as the postcolonial response to French activities in
colonial Algeria and the protectorates of Tunisia and Morocco. On
giving focus to women's art and the impact of cross-cultural
interchanges, this book rethinks Orientalism in French art. This
book will be of particular interest to scholars in the history of
art, gender studies, history, and Middle Eastern and North African
studies.
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