Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was the only Impressionist artist to paint Orientalist themes, yet little has been written about the two journeys he took to the French North African colony of Algeria in 1881 and 1882. There he created more than two dozen stunning works, depicting exotic scenes of ancient stone mosques, milling crowds at a festival in the Casbah, and spectacular palm fronds in the botanical garden. This text, published to accompany a travelling exhibition organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, assembles for all of Renoir's Algerian paintings as a coherent body of work. The volume situates Renoir's early studio Orientalism within the great tradition of French Orientalist painting. The landscapes and figure paintings Renoir completed in Algiers, several of which are previously unpublished, are discussed in the context of the topography of the city and of the ethnography of its people. Period photographs, engravings, maps and postcards, together with an essay exploring the Algeria beyond Renoir's canvases, provide historical and cultural background on the country and on the French presence there.
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"A scrupulous examination of a significant but understudied area of Renoir's oeuvre." John House, Courtauld Institute of Art
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This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts from February 16 to May 11, 2003; the Dallas Museum of Art from June 8 to September 7, 2003; and to the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, from October 6, 2003, to January 18, 2004. Published in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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The idea we normally have of Renoir, the one habitually promoted by art history in the twentieth century, hardly sees him as connected to the East at all. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
travel sketchbook, femme sauvage, des arts graphiques, mon cher ami, upper city, lower city Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Sidi Abd-er-Rahman, Bab Azzoun, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, New York, Renoir's Algerian, Research Library, Place du Gouvernement, Collection of David Prochaska, Dancing Girl, North Africa, Madame Stora, Parisian Women, Algerian Girl, Mademoiselle Fleury, Woman of Algiers, French Algeria, Jewish Wedding, Ravin de la Femme Sauvage, The Concert, Third Republic, Alexandre Leroux, Champ de Manoeuvres, Henri Matisse New!
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- Colonial Harem (Theory and History of Literature) by Malek Alloula in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Renoir: An Intimate Record by Ambroise Vollard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Renoir (Impressionists) by Francois Paulte on page 91, and Back Matter
- Henri Matisse (Spanish Edition) by Valencia Dart Modern -. Ivam Institut in Back Matter
- Claude Monet, 1840-1926 by Karin Sagner-Duechting on page 70
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