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Ways to hate Delaxroix, and then Matisse

Robert Irwin

  • The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism 1798-1836 by Todd Porterfield

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Robert Irwin’s For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, which appeared last year, was his sixth non-fiction book on Middle Eastern history and culture.

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