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| | Egyptomania! - Western art that is inspired by Egyptian art, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Art in America - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | In the opening line of the catalogue's first essay, Ziegler asserts, "Egyptomania is not the daughter of the Egyptian campaign."[4] Instead, the organizers describe the encounter of Western artist and Egyptian motif as apolitical, natural, nearly eternal. |
 | | For reasons that were not evident, three of the show's sections - on Dominique-Vivant Denon (Napoleon's art czar, chronicler and celebrant of the Egyptian campaign), on Egyptian themes in opera, and on Cleopatra - were said to be major divisions. |
 | | The effect was to cut off Egyptomania from the textual tradition of which it was always a part: the words and pictures which explored the historical, philosophical, political and religious stake that Europe had in the East. |
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