Art and Identity in Spain, 1833-1956 - The Orient Within

Analyzes how artists in Spain visualised Al-Andalus (medieval Iberia under Islam) and northern Morocco, bringing new perspectives to current understanding of European Orientalism.

About the author

Claudia Hopkins is Professor of Art History at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She served as the Director of the Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art at Durham University between 2020 and 2023, and is Editor of Art in Translation. Recent publications include Romantic Spain. David Roberts and Genero Pérez Villaamil (2021), which won the Jonathan Brown Award of the Society of Global Iberian Art (SIGA) for exceptional achievement in an exhibition catalogue, and the co-edited two-volume Hot Art, Cold War-European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 (2020).

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Hopkins
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781350428577
• ISBN: 978-1-350-42857-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Folk & Outsider Art, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, History of Art, Modernism, Painting & paintings, Outsider Art, Art brut, Oriental art, Folk, Folkloric styles