LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION vi DIRECTOR'S FOREWORD vii CURATOR'S PREFACE viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi Roots and Others OLEG GRABAR 3 A Million and One Nights: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 HOLLY EDWARDS 11 "The garments of instruction from the wardrobe of pleasure": American Orientalist Painting in the 1870s and 1880s BRIAN T. ALLEN 59 Speaking Back to Orientalist Discourse at the World's Columbian Exposition ZEYNEP CELIK 77 The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s STEVEN C. CATON 99 Catalogue of the Exhibition HOLLY EDWARDS 120 WORKS CITED 233 INDEX 239
Holly Edwards is an independent scholar and specialist on Islamic art. She is the author of The Genesis of Islamic Architecture. Contributors to the catalogue include Brian Allen, Assistant Director for Curatorial Programs at the Clark Art Institute; Steve Caton, Professor of Social Anthropology at Harvard University; Zeynep Çelik, Professor in the School of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; and Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton.
"Although published alongside a traveling exhibition, this fascinating and very readable work is what a museum book ought to be: a well-illustrated, stand-alone study. Edwards has compiled a full examination of this branch of American exoticism and how it permeated the culture from high to low...An exotic, art-historical jewel."--Library Journal "An intellectually stimulating, much-needed catalogue for an important exhibition of American material culture."--CAA.reviews "A valuable tool for American historians interested in material culture."--The Historian "Edwards has drawn together a superb cohort of American and Islamic art historians to describe the curious mix of high and low cultural interests... One great contribution of this [book] is that it situates Orientalism within diverse visual cultures, including architecture, advertising, design, book illustration, dance, and film."--Michael Davidson, Modernism/Modernity
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