Who Travels Sees More: Artists, Architects and Archaeologists Discover Egypt and the near East

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Who lives sees much, who travels sees more. The Arab proverb is an appropriate title for this latest collection of essays published by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East on its tenth anniversary. The desire to see what lay beyond the familiar landscapes of home shaped the lives of all the travellers discussed here. Their backgrounds and training as artists of one sort or another mean that they responded to what they saw in visual ways - in many cases taking the revelations of their...

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Overview

Who lives sees much, who travels sees more. The Arab proverb is an appropriate title for this latest collection of essays published by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East on its tenth anniversary. The desire to see what lay beyond the familiar landscapes of home shaped the lives of all the travellers discussed here. Their backgrounds and training as artists of one sort or another mean that they responded to what they saw in visual ways - in many cases taking the revelations of their travels home with them to inspire their own work.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781842172735
  • Publisher: Oxbow Books
  • Publication date: 9/28/2007
  • Pages: 216
  • Product dimensions: 7.50 (w) x 9.70 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents


Contributors     vii
Introduction   Diane Fortenberry     ix
Some Remarks on the Mesopotamian Travels of Robert Ker Porter   Kai Kaniuth     1
Sir Charles Fellows and the Xanthian Marbles   Enid Slatter     17
The Short, Happy Life of Harold Jones, Artist and Archaeologist   Lyla Pinch-Brock     31
The Paradox of Cypriot Artistic Representations   Rita C. Severis     41
Egypt Discovered by 19th-century American Artists   Caroline Williams     55
Patronage, Politics and an Ill-defined Profession: How James 'Athenian' Stuart Became an Architect   Kerry Bristol     69
An Architect's Progress: Charles Barry's Travels in Egypt   Patricia Usick     87
Inspired by Egypt: Owen Jones and Architectural Theory   Kathryn Ferry     101
The Consequences of an Aesthetic Approach to the Holy City: C. R. Ashbee and the Pro-Jerusalem Society   Anat Almog     119
By Brush and Lens: Revealing the Sphinx   Elaine Altman Evans     133
Mohammad Sadiq's Exploration of the Hijaz Route and the First Photographs of the Prophet's Mosque   Paul Robertson     147
In the Sandals of Pharaoh: James Henry Breasted and the Stereoscope   Elaine Altman Evans     163
The British Consulate House in Cairo: Travellers' Tales, 1816-27   Deborah Manley     179
Wer soll Meister sein? Travelling Journeymen in Cairo   Agnieszka Dobrowolska     187
Index     199
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