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French Women Orientalist Artists, 18611956: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Depictions of Difference

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By (author): Mary Kelly

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 womens painted perspectives of and contacts with Muslim women as well as various Maghrebi cultures and landall 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 womens 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 womens 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 womens 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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Product Details
  • Weight: 712g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Jul 2021
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781472440310

About Mary Kelly

Mary Kelly (née Healy) is a Lecturer in Art History Theory and Gallery Studies and Director of the MA in Global Gallery Studies at University College Cork Ireland. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies Trinity College Dublin.

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