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Weeks, Emily M.

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Acknowledgments

Emily M. Weeks

Cultures Crossed: John Frederick Lewis and the Art of Orientalism

Acknowledgments

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Emily M. Weeks

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23341

Acknowledgments

This book exists because of the unwavering support and patience of a number of people, whose names, if not recited here, will assuredly not be forgotten. Dr. Timothy Barringer, my graduate school advisor, and Professors Julie Codell, Alex Nemerov, and Ruth Bernard Yeazell, all readers of my Ph.D. dissertation, offered insights that have improved every page of this work, and for that I am grateful. Professor Jason Thompson and the late Major-General J.M.H. Lewis provided invaluable archival and historical information over the years — and Mrs. Lewis a most delicious lunch. Briony Llewellyn, Charles Newton, and Mary Roberts have each readily shared their deep knowledge of Lewis and his colleagues; their observations and comments are well appreciated. Stephen Deuchar’s encouragement and enthusiasm for my work on Lewis have also meant a great deal, as has his enduring friendship. I must express my gratitude as well to the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and to the Yale Center for British Art, both for their generous financial assistance and for the moral support that their Directors and staff bestowed for more years than were probably deserved. The receipt of a Publication Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre in the eleventh hour allowed me to select the images I most wanted, and submit them to my (tireless and impossibly good-natured) editor and designer at Yale University Press in good time. Finally, to my family, I can only say that I love you — and that, at long last, it is done.

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BOOKCultures Crossed: John Frederick Lewis and the Art of Orientalism

Emily M. Weeks

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00344

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23339

John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876) is one of the best-known yet least understood British Orientalist painters of the nineteenth century. His numerous, highly detailed Orientalist images stand in dramatic contrast to the meager written archive of the years he spent in Egypt between 1841 and 1851; art historians have long puzzled over the details of this significant period and struggled for meaningful insight into his process of artful construction.

This innovative book, the first critical monograph devoted to this acclaimed artist, draws on both newly uncovered historical data and imperial and post-colonial theory to propose a compelling new interpretation of Lewis’s paintings and biography. In addition to offering formal, historical, and theoretical examinations of Lewis’s highly nuanced subject matter, Weeks argues that Lewis crafted an ambiguous, cross-cultural identity that challenged viewers’ understanding of fact and fiction and, along with his pictures, subverted systems of patriarchal power in England and abroad.

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Emily M. Weeks

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Print publication date November 2014 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300208160

EISBN 9780300273458

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