Author(s): Mary Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Defining ‘Orientalism’
Locating Women Orientalists: empirical research and the Salons of Paris
‘Open platform of discussion’: an approach to the heterogeneous Orientalist debate
Ways of seeing: the gendered gaze upon the historical ‘Orient’
1 Marie Elisabeth Aimée Lucas-Robiquet (1858-1959): Interior Depictions of Maghrebi Weavers
Artist biography
North African weaver paintings
2 Interior Representations of Maghrebi Women
‘Oriental women’ in the interior: stereotypical representations in European art and the political debate
From academic to modern: women Orientalists’ renderings of interior female spaces
The paradoxes of painting ‘the Muslim woman behind the veil’
3 Describing the Maghrebi Exterior: Women Orientalists’ Depictions of Life and Landscape
The political dilemma of painting the exterior Maghrebi world
The Maghrebi exterior world as described by women Orientalists: from the rural desert to the urban city
Rural nomadic life: French women’s painted and sculpted representations
Rural village and town life: the legacy of Dinet’s ‘outsider sensibility’
Urban city life: artists’ search for ‘Oriental’ naturalism in the midst of modernisation
4 Modernism in the Works of French Women Orientalists
Early twentieth-century modernist Orientalists
Women Orientalists and the avant-garde: treatment of the female figure and space by means of modernist form
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
