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Informationen zum Autor Claudia Hopkins is Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, UK. A specialist on Spanish art and culture, including Anglo-Spanish relations, her publications include the edited volume Pascual de Gayangos: a Nineteenth-Century Spanish Arabist (2008) - described in the Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies (2010) as "an important contribution to the study of the history of Oriental studies”, presenting “a much more nuanced picture than the clear-cut divisions often inferred from Said's Orientalism". She made a major contribution to the exhibition and its publication The Discovery of Spain: British Artists and Collectors: Goya to Picasso (National Gallery of Scotland, 2009), and has written several articles on (Spanish) art and cultural translation. In 2015, she was awarded funding by the Carnegie Trust for her research on Spanish Orientalism. She is also director of a collaborative project, funded by the Terra Foundation, relating to the European reception of American art. She is co-editor of the Getty-funded journal Art in Translation .Analyzes how Spanish artists visualized al-Andalus and Morocco, bringing a significant new perspective to current understanding of European Orientalism. Zusammenfassung Richly illustrated with exotic images! ranging from Moorish palaces fantastically imagined by the Romantic painter Genaro Pérez Villaamil to paintings of everyday life in colonial Morocco by Mariano Bertuchi! this is the first history of Spanish Orientalist art in English. It shows how artists visualized Spain's Islamic past (711-1492) and their nearest "Orient" in Morocco for audiences at home and abroad. With the exception of Fortuny! the book introduces many unfamiliar figures! such as Francisco Iturrino! who travelled with Matisse to Morocco! producing novel visions of the exotic. The state-funded annual Pintores de Africa exhibitions! never examined before! provide a vital perspective on how art served Franco's colonial politics based on a "Hispano-Moroccan brotherhood". Hopkins reveals that Spanish Orientalism was inflected by diverse issues (such as national identity! gender anxieties! colonialism! aesthetics) and put to a wide range of uses. The familiar understanding of Western Orientalism in terms of distinct opposition (East/West) is challenged. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Past as a National Fantasy 1830-1850: Genaro Pérez Villaamil 2. The Poetics of Victory 3. Morocco by Way of Al-Andalus 4. Painting History! 1860-19005. Effeminate Men! Devious Women 6. Distance and Proximity in Colonial Representation 7. Morocco in Modern Painting around 1900 8. "Convivencia" in Francoist Spain! 1936-1956Conclusion BibliographyIndex ...
