{"product_id":"near-east-to-far-west-by-jennifer-r-henneman-9780300266047","title":"Near East to Far West","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNear East to Far West\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new perspective on French Orientalism's influence on the art of the American West, exploring how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1830s to the 1920s, American artists such as Alfred Jacob Miller, George de Forest Brush, Joseph H. Sharp, Bert Geer Phillips, and Ernest Blumenschein travelled to France to study their craft. Returning from abroad, these artists turned their focus to the American West, in search of new subjects. Influenced by French Orientalists like Eugène Delacroix, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, the American artists applied an Orientalist aesthetic and ideology to their paintings, sculptures, and drawings, yet their works retained a uniquely American identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores the ways that the visual tropes and knowledge structures of Orientalism influenced French and American colonialism and expansion. It considers the impact of French artistic techniques and motifs on the development of western American art. Themes include the symbolism of desert landscapes and exotic animals, the role of world’s fairs in disseminating Orientalist spectacles and stereotypes, and the importance of artistic pilgrimage to the deserts of North Africa and the American Southwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHistorical and contemporary perspectives of Indigenous peoples of North America, Muslim Americans, and Arab Americans challenge, negotiate, and provide alternative perspectives to the artworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDistributed for the Denver Art Museum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition Schedule:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDenver Art Museum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e (March 5–May 28, 2023)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463924662508,"sku":"9780300266047","price":119.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300266047-near-east-to-far-west.jpg?v=1775036410","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/near-east-to-far-west-by-jennifer-r-henneman-9780300266047","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}