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The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500-1920 Hardback - 1988

by John Sweetman

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The Oriental Obsession begins in the early sixteenth century with Cardinal Wolsey waiting two years for the delivery of sixty rare Turkey carpets from Venice, and ends in the age of the great exhibitions and emporia on both sides of the Atlantic, before and after 1900, when Islamic objects were seen, appreciated, and bought by millions of the public. The book is concerned with a subject which has not been treated before - the history over four centuries of Islamic artistic traditions and European ideas of Islam as they affected the visual arts of the west and particularly the English-speaking peoples. Studies of individual aspects have been made previously, but this is the first time that an attempt has been made to consider the subject as a whole. The geographical purview extends from Moorish Spain in the west to British India in the east and, besides architecture, the activities that are involved include painting, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, furniture and bookcrafts.

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  • Title The Oriental Obsession: Islamic Inspiration in British and American Art and Architecture 1500-1920
  • Author John Sweetman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 362
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
  • Publication date 1988
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780521329828 / 0521329825
  • Weight 3.42 lbs (1.55 kg)
  • Category Architecture
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture - Great Britain - Islamic, Art, British - Islamic influences
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 86028383
  • Dewey Decimal Code 709.41
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