Roger Benjamin, Cristina Ashjian

Gebundenes Buch

Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia

Beschreibung

Offers an understanding of how the European avant-garde was formed in dialogue with cultural difference. This book looks closely at the cities of Tunis, Sousse, Hammamet, and Kairouan to flesh out a profound confrontation between European high modernism and the wealth of Islamic lifeways and architecture.

Autor

Roger Benjamin is Professor of Art History at the University of Sydney. His notable publications include the prize-winning Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930. In 1995 he co-curated Matisse for the Queensland Art Gallery, and in 1997 his exhibition Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee was held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He is former Director of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney. Cristina Ashjian is an independent scholar based in New England, where she is chair of the Moultonborough Heritage Commission. She earned her MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, London, and as German Chancellor Fellow at the University of Munich in 1995-96 she researched her doctoral dissertation, "Representing 'scènes et types' Wassily Kandinsky in Tunisia, 1904-1905." She has collaborated on the research for Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 182mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780520283657
• ISBN-10: 0520283651
• Artikelnr.: 42516567