Good++ in a Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is moderatley shelfworn and edgeworn, but is overall clean and intact with no large edge-tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Clean boards with minor edgewear; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (11.75" - 12.75" tall); 4.1 lbs; Jacket with painting illustration of men on camels, and title in black lettering; 2006, Laynfaroh Publishing; 304 pages; "Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, the Sahara, Persia and," by Kristian Davies.

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Book Info:  From the Great Pyramids to the Taj Mahal, the Middle East and India have for centuries lured Westerners to travel and have inspired their architecture, literature, music and fashion. The Orientalists pursues the richest era of this fascination, the mid to late 19th century, when American and European artists traveled and painted throughout the Holy Land and India. The highly cinematic images they created suggest a great influence on modern visual culture. Travel, art, geography, cultural perception, and social and military history are all woven through the text. An extensive introduction provides a thought-provoking perspective on the evolution of Orientalism and the rise of Islam and its ever-changing relationship to the West. It is within this context that the author introduces us to Orientalist paintings. The author is well aware of September 11, 2001 and its implications on the book which was being researched and formulated in his mind before the horrific events unfolded. He does not pretend

-- Customer Review -- In the last years i've read many books about the academic painters of the 19.century. Masters, who belong to the greatest of mankind,fall into oblivion due to the unquestionable admiration of dilettante garbage in museums and the media.Kristian Davies gave us with this art book a small jewel at hand, an important contribution for the improvement of the situation.Contrary to many authors of other art books, most of them troublesome to read and see the end of the book, Davies, with his easy, flowing, personal and knowledgeable writing style, captivate his readers.

-- Customer Review -- This book absolutely blew me away. I manage a prestigious museum's bookstore in a major US city and have seen every single art history book that's come on the market in the last five years. I can honestly say that this book definitively sets a new standard for color reproduction and readability [it's easily the most accessible art book I've ever seen.] It contains hundreds of eye-popping color reproductions [and detail studies] of paintings that define the genre, some never having been seen by anyone for over a century.

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