Orientalism and visual culture : imagining Mesopotamia in nineteenth-century Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bohrer, Frederick Nathaniel, 1956-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Exoticism in art > Europe. Arts, European > 19th century. Arts, European > 20th century. Assyria > In art.
Online Access:	Publisher description Table of contents

Table of Contents:

A new antiquity
1. Exoticism as system
2. The subjects of nineteenth-century exoticism: journeys in space and time
3. French disconnections
4. Assyria in England: between text and object
5. Representing Assyria in England, I: devising alternatives
6. Representing Assyria in England, II: varieties of circulation
7. Mesopotamian emulation, interpretation, and imagination in late nineteenth-century France
8. Germany's Mesopotamia, 1899 to 1915: beyond the nineteenth-century horizon.