Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

National Gallery of Canada

Musée du Louvre

Michael Pantazzi

Jean-Marcel Humbert

Christiane Ziegler

Réunion des musées nationaux (France)

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienne)

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 20/1 - 18/4 1994 and travelling. The works in this exhibition show the influence of Egypt on western artists working in the eighteenth century.

Egypt in Western Art, 1730-1930 : [exhibition] Paris, Musée Du Louvre, 20 January-18 April 1994; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, 17 June-18 September 1994; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 16 October 1994-29 January 1995

Egyptomania

Clifford Price

This book presents and analyses the results of the use and adaptation of ancient Egyptian architecture in modern times. It traces the use of ancient Egyptian motifs and constructions across the world, from Australia, the Americas and Southern Africa to Western Europe. It also inquires into the cultural, economic and social contexts of this practice. Imhotep Today is exceptional not only in its global coverage, but in its analyses of thorny questions such as: what was it about Ancient Egypt that inspired such Egyptianizing monuments, and was it just one idea, or several different ones which formed the basis of such activities? The book also asks why only certain images, such as obelisks and sphinxes, were incorporated within the movement. The contributors explore how these 'monuments' fitted into the local architecture of the time and, in this context, they investigate whether 'Egyptianizing architecture' is an ongoing movement and, if so, how it differs from earlier, similar activities.

Egyptianizing Architecture

Imhotep Today

Jean-Marcel Humbert

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