简介:Catalogue for an exhibition of 124 Orientalist paintings (1814-1943) and 50 photographs of subjects from the Near East and North Africa (ca.1850-1911). There are four catalogue essays: "The Oriental mirage," by Roger Benjamin; "Post-colonial taste: non-western markets for Orientalist art," by Roger Benjamin; "From empire’s end: Australians as Orientalists, 1880-1920," by Ursula Prunster; and "The Orient in the photographers’ mirror: from Constantinople to Mecca," by Mounira Khemir.