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Hardcover The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History: Eastern and Western Visions in the Long Nineteenth Century Book

ISBN: 1399524879

ISBN13: 9781399524872

The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History: Eastern and Western Visions in the Long Nineteenth Century

A growing flow of visitors in the 19th century turned the Alhambra into a touristic destination and a major trope of Orientalism, created by Western authors and artists from Fran ois-Ren de Chateaubriand to Owen Jones and from Washington Irving to Jean-L on G r me. Yet behind this Western infatuation lie scores of 'Oriental' observers of the monument, as revealed by its visitors' book, kept since 1829.
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