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Orientalist Aesthetics
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of ...
Orientalism
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, 6 December 1997 - 22 February 1998, and the Auckland City Art Gallery, 20 March - 7 June 1998.
Rhetorics of History
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Renoir and Algeria
Renoir made two journeys to Algeria, in 1881 & 1882. He was the only Impressionist to paint Orientalist themes, but this aspect of his work has been little studied. This book places Renoir in the unfamiliar context of the French Orientalist tradition.
Matisse
Contains photographs of sculptures created by Henri Matisse.
Growing Up Modern
Named "a genius if there ever was one", Czech refugee Alex Jelinek created Australia's 1957 House of the Year in the city of Canberra. This is the story of the house as a home - how it came to be designed, built, and lived in. Lovers of mid-century modern design will revel in this first-hand account of the Benjamin family's home and lives, brought ......
Juan Davila
Juan Davila is an artist who believes in the possibility of effecting social change through art. Born in Chile, he moved to Australia in 1974. His art sets to counter indifference in the community and spark discourse on many issues in the international cultural and political landscape. His work has commented on the Australian political system, greed, capitalism, the oppression exerted by Western art history, the representation of sexuality and the treatment of marginalised people. This book features a selection of paintings, installations and works from the early 1970's to the early 2000's and includes essays and written commentary on key works.
Henri Matisse
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The New Limits of Education Policy
Using a political economy framework to analyze the current problems facing US post-secondary education, The New Limits of Education Policy tackles the questions surrounding the future of higher education. This study provides an explanation as to why improvement of teaching and learning is not a high priority for the stakeholders involved. Roger Benjamin explains why heightened recognition by the State of the importance of human capital in the knowledge economy will create the external conditions that will, in turn, create the need for an altered incentive system for these stakeholders. He goes on to make a case for additional positive incentives that would reward behavior that improves teach...
