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Harem: The World Behind the Veil Croutier, Alev Lytle
1558591591 / 9781558591592 Good.
Paperback. Softcover 4th printing 1989 Abbeville Press. Spine is creased. Otherwise only light wear; very clean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. 224 pages; Index; Chronology; Bibliography; many color and black-and-white illustrations and photos. Language: English. Cover art: detail from La Grande Odalisque by Ingres. 'Alev Lytle Croutier, a screenwriter and documentary film maker, was born in Turkey and spent her formative years there. Harem: The World Behind the Veil is presented as a history of the harem, but it focuses mostly on Ottoman Turkey and, in particular, on life as it was lived in the sultan's seraglio in Constantinople. ... It wasn't until the 18th century, with the publication of Scheherazade's tales in Thousand and One Nights, that the harem and its occupants came to the serious attention of polite Western society, which immediately romanticized it and turned it into a craze. ... An Orientalist school of painting emerged, including famed artists like Delacroix, Ingres, Jean-Leon Gerome, John Frederick Lewis and Amadeo Preziosi. Ms. Croutier's book includes lavish color illustrations of these artists' work, wonderful family photographs from the author's collection, advertising art, Hollywood movie stills and delightful Persian miniatures. This is a serious history, yet an immensely readable one --informative, gossipy and grand fun-.'--Bertrice Small, New York Times, 1989. Keywords: concubine, eunuch, polygamy, social history.
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