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"Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930"
2000-06-11 until 2000-09-04
Clark Art Institute of Art
Williamstown, MA, USA United States of America

Harem girls in the bath house and hookah smokers in the café, spice merchants calling in the bazaar and turbaned warriors camped at the oasis: These are among the stereotypes of an imaginary Orient that American artists and entrepreneurs have conjured up for a broad public.

The rich history of this American Orientalism will be the subject of Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930, a traveling exhibition organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, on view there from June 11 to September 4. Far broader than any previous museum show devoted to this topic, Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures breaks new ground in drawing on the expertise of scholars specializing in Islamic art and culture to look at the Orientalist attitudes in American art. Led by Holly Edwards, author of The Genesis of Islamic Architecture in the Indus Valley, the curatorial team traces America’s images of the exotic and erotic Middle East from the high-art era of John Singer Sargent’s Fumée d’ambre gris to the popular-art era of Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik.

IMAGE:
Sargent,
Fumee d'ambergris,
©CAI


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