书名：Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism / 从近东到远西：法国和美国殖民主义的虚构叙事
定价：485.0
ISBN：9780300266047
作者：Jennifer R. Henneman
版次：1
出版时间：2023-03

内容提要：

题 目：Near East to Far West: Fictions of French and American Colonialism / 从近东到远西：法国和美国殖民主义的虚构叙事

作 者：Jennifer R. Henneman

出 版：Denver Art Museum ，2023

装 帧：精装，288页

尺 寸：24.1*29.8 cm

 

 

法国东方主义与美国西部艺术新视角

 

本书深入探讨了法国东方主义对19世纪至20世纪初美国西部艺术的影响，揭示了美学与意识形态如何共同塑造了法国与美国在这一时期的殖民与扩张策略。

 

从19世纪30年代至20世纪20年代，阿尔弗雷德·雅各布·米勒、乔治·德·福雷斯特·布拉什、约瑟夫·H·夏普、伯特·吉尔·菲利普斯和恩斯特·布卢门沙因等美国艺术家纷纷前往法国深造。学成归国后，他们将目光投向了美国西部，寻找新的创作灵感。在法国东方主义大师如欧仁·德拉克罗瓦、欧仁·弗罗芒坦和让-莱昂·热罗姆的影响下，这些美国艺术家在绘画、雕塑和素描作品中融入了东方主义的美学理念和意识形态，同时创作出独具美国特色的艺术作品。

 

本书详细剖析了东方主义的视觉意象和知识结构如何影响法国与美国的殖民与扩张行为，并探讨了法国艺术技巧和意象对美国西部艺术发展的深远影响。书中还涉及了沙漠景观和异域动物的象征意义、世界博览会在传播东方主义奇观和刻板印象方面的作用，以及前往北非沙漠和美国西南部的艺术朝圣之旅的重要性。同时，本书还从北美原住民、美国穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美国人的历史和当代视角出发，对这些艺术作品进行了质疑、协商，并提供了不同的解读角度。

 

A new look at French Orientalism’s influence on the art of the American West, showing how aesthetics and ideology jointly informed approaches to colonialism and expansion during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and the United States

 

From the 1830s to the 1920s, American artists such as Alfred Jacob Miller, George de Forest Brush, Joseph H. Sharp, Bert Geer Phillips, and Ernest Blumenschein traveled to France to study their craft. Returning from abroad, these artists looked to the American West in search of new subjects. Influenced by French Orientalists such as Eugène Delacroix, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-Léon Gér?me, the American artists applied an Orientalist aesthetic and ideology to their paintings, sculptures, and drawings, while at the same time creating works that appeared uniquely American. Exploring the ways that the visual tropes and knowledge structures of Orientalism influenced French and American colonialism and expansion, this volume considers the impact of French artistic techniques and tropes on the development of western American art. Other themes include the symbolism of desert landscapes and exotic animals, the role of world’s fairs in disseminating Orientalist spectacles and stereotypes, and the importance of artistic pilgrimage to the deserts of North Africa and the American Southwest. Historical and contemporary perspectives of Indigenous peoples of North America, Muslim Americans, and Arab Americans challenge, negotiate, and provide alternative perspectives to the artworks.

 

Distributed for the Denver Art Museum

 

Exhibition Schedule:

 

Denver Art Museum

(March 5–May 28, 2023)