Contributor to periodicals, including American Art Review and Art & Antiques. Author and art historian Kristian Davies was educated at Northwestern University, New York University, and the Sorbonne III in Paris.

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Having both traveled and lived in the region, author Kristian Davies approaches this often misunderstood genre of art from a fresh perspective. The book is designed to be a primer, a fresh new approach and redefinition of the genre.

In the introduction to his splendid illustrated book, Kristian Davies describes the Orientalist painters’ rare gift of capturing wonderful motifs. These were artists who travelled to the east and preserved a record of the pre-modern era in their work. Davies found their paintings in 60 in-stitutions in ten countries.

From the Great Pyramids to the Taj Mahal, the Middle East and India have for centuries lured Westerners to travel and have inspired their architecture, literature, music and fashion. This...

Having both traveled and lived in the region, author Kristian Davies approaches this often misunderstood genre of art from a fresh perspective. The book is designed to be a primer, a fresh new approach and redefinition of the genre.

In this volume, Davies sets himself the task of rescuing and rehabilitating the genre of academic Orientalism in painting, with its golden age in the second half of the 19th century.

Feb 1, 2005 · I am in awe of Davies's wide perspective and approach. He writes about the fascination of the late 19th century artists with the Orient in a novel way, covering also the criticism of the Edward Said's criticism, giving a fantastic historical, socioeconomic and …