Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean /

Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean / / ed. by Voltech Jirat-Wasiutynski.

The Mediterranean is an invented cultural space, on the frontier between North and South, West and East. Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean examines the representation of this region in the visual arts since the late eighteenth century, placing the ?idea of the Mediterranean? ? a cultural...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Athanassoglou-Kallmyer, Nina,
Braun, Emily,
Dombrowski, André,
Dymond, Anne,
Jirat-Wasiutyński, Vojtěch,
Klein, John,
Loriggio, Francesco,
Myzelev, Alla,
Prochaska, David,
Zarobell, John,
HerausgeberIn:
Jirat-Wasiutynski, Voltech,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2006
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (480 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Modern Art and the New Mediterranean Space
  • 2. Allegories of Modernity: Space, Time, and the Mediterranean
  • 3. Abstracting Space: Remaking the Landscape of Colonial Algeria in Second-Empire France
  • 4. The Untimely Classicism of Hans von Marées
  • 5. A Politicized Pastoral: Signac and the Cultural Geography of Mediterranean France
  • 6. Inventing Mediterranean Harmony in Matisse's Paper Cut-Outs
  • 7. Classicism and Resistance in Late- Nineteenth-Century European Art: The Case of Greece
  • 8. The Faces of Modigliani: Identity Politics under Fascism
  • 9. The Representation of Islamic Art in Israeli Museums: The Politics of Collecting
  • 10. Returning the Gaze: Orientalism, Gender, and Yasmina Bouziane's Photographic Self-Portraits
  • Contributors

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