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Author? 1972. The Egyptian influence. Sunday Times Magazine (London) (19 March). Pp. ??-??. Part one of two, examines Egyptian influence on Western art and architecture. Published to coincide with the opening of the Tutankhamun Exhibition. Possibly by Michael Darby. Baines, John & Jaromír Málek. 1980. Egypt in Western art. Atlas of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Equinox. Brief two-page chapter, consisting primarily of illustrations and captions, on Egyptomania from ancient Rome through the late 1970s. Bednarski, Andrew. 2005. Holding Egypt: tracing the reception of the Description de L'Égypte in nineteenth-century Great Britain. ??: Golden House. Critical examination of the contemporary reaction to the publication. Berger, Éric. 1994. Faire revivre l'Égypte ... ou l'égyptomanie chez le romancier français, classique ou populaire. Cercle Lyonnais d'Égyptologie Victor Loret (Lyon) 8: 7-24. Egyptomania in France since 1600, including brief synopses of post-1950 historical novels. Bergman, Diane & Mary Gow. 1998. Egypt and Egyptomania in the Brooklyn Museum of Art Libraries: bibliography. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art. Birk, Eileen P. 1966. Revivals come and go. Antiques 90.4 (October, 1966): 420, 428. Brief notice of an Egyptian exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to counter Egyptian revival art discussed elsewhere in the issue (here: Carrott 1966; Gerdts 1966; Johnson 1966). Bongioanni, Alessandro & Riccardo Grazzi. 1994. Torino, l’Egitto e l’Oriente fra Storia e Leggenda. Torino: Libreria L’Angolo Manzoni Editrice = Collana Le Radici. Bonhams. 2008. The Egyptian Revival Sale. London: Bonhams Auctioneers. Catalog of a 165-lot sale held 23 January 2008. Brier, Bob. 1990. Napoleon in Egypt (catalogue of the exhibition at Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, August - September, 1990). Brookville, New York: Long Island University. Exhibition catalog. Brier, Bob. 1992. Egyptomania (catalogue of the exhibition at Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, 12 June - 24 July 1992). Brookville, New York: Long Island University. Exhibition catalog. Brier, Bob. 2004. Egyptomania! what accounts for our intoxication with things Egyptian? Archaeology 57.1 (January/February 2004): 16-22. A review of Egyptian motifs from diverse modern sources, including residential architecture, sheet music, advertising, and film. Bruwier, Marie-Cécile. 1995. Égyptophilie, égyptomanie, égyptologie. In: Égypte et regards occidentaux. Mariemont: Musée royal de Mariemont. Catalog from an exhibit of Egyptological holdings from libraries in Belgium, dating from the 16th to 19th centuries. Conner, Patrick (ed.) 1983. The Inspiration of Egypt: its influence on British artists, travellers and designers, 1700-1900. Brighton: Brighton Museum. Exhibition catalogue. Curl, James Stevens. 1982. The Egyptian Revival: a recurring theme in the history of taste. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. A broad view of the Egyptian Revival, including in religious beliefs and alchemy, art during the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, and the Neoclassical movement, as well as decorative arts and painting. Revised edition issued as Curl 1994 and Curl 2005. Curl, James Stevens. 1994. Egyptomania. The Egyptian Revival: a recurring theme in the history of taste. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. A broad view of the Egyptian Revival, including in religious beliefs and alchemy, art during the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, and the Neoclassical movement, as well as decorative arts and painting. Revised edition of Curl 1982. Further revised as Curl 2005. Curl, James Stevens. 2002. The Art and Architecture of Freemasonry: an introductory study. London: B.T. Batsford. Includes Egyptian influences. Curl, James Stevens. 2005. The Egyptian Revival: a recurring theme in the history of taste. London: Routledge. A broad view of the Egyptian Revival, including in religious beliefs and alchemy, art during the Roman Empire, the Renaissance, and the Neoclassical movement, as well as decorative arts and painting. Revised edition of Curl 1982 and Curl 1994. Curran, Brian A. 1996. [review] Egyptomania: Egypt in Western Art, 1730-1930. The Art Bulletin ?? (December): ??-??. Review of Humbert & al. 1994. Curran, Brian. 2007. The Egyptian Renaissance: the afterlife of ancient Egypt in early modern Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Dewachter, Michel. 1996. Le choc en retour: l’égyptomanie des égyptologues. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 425-434. The attitudes of certain early French Egyptologists toward Egyptomania. Doyle, Noreen. 2005. Egypt. In: The Encyclopedia of Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy volume I. Ed. Gary Westfahl. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Pp. 235-237. Brief survey of the role of ancient and modern Egypt in speculative fiction, including novels, television, and film, 18th century to present. Fazzini, Richard A. 1988. Pharaonic art and the modern imagination -- ancient Egypt. UNESCO Courier ?? (September): ??-??. Brief overview of Egyptian Revivals, from pharaonic times to the present. Fazzini, Richard E. & Mary E. McKercher. 2001. Egyptomania. In: The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt volume 1. Ed. David O'Connor. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 458-465. An overview of the theme in many media, from antiquity to the present. France, Peter. 1991. The Rape of Egypt. London: Barrie & Jenkins. A history of Europeans in Egypt, especially the acquisition of antiquities. France, Peter. 1995. Der Raub der Nofretete. Die Plünderung Ägyptens durch Europa. München: Diederichs, 1995. Translation of France 1991. Frayling, Chrisopher. 2003. Egyptomania. In: Art Deco 1910-1939. Ed. Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, Ghislaine Wood. New York: Bulfinch Press. Freeman, Charles. 1997. The Legacy of Ancient Egypt. ??: Facts on File, Inc. Includes chapters on Egyptomania. Gerdts, William H. 1966. Egyptian motives in nineteenth-century American painting and sculpture. Antiques 90.4 (October, 1966): 495-501. A brief overview on the development of the theme through the century. Gonzalez-Palacios, Alvar. 1970. The French Empire Style. London: Hamlyn. A survey of this style in the fine and decorative arts and architecture, which included considerable Egyptian influence. Grimm, Günter. 1994. Antinous renatus et felix? Überlegungen zur Statue des Antinous-Jonas in Santa Maria del Popolo. In: Aspekte spätägyptischer Kultur. Festschrift für Erich Winter zum 65. Geburtstag. Ed. Martina Minas, Jürgen Zeidler. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern = Aegyptiaca Treverensia. Trierer Studien zum Griechisch-Römischen Ägypten 7: 103-112. Haider, Raana. 2000. Parisian Portraits. Dhaka: University Press Limited. A look at Paris, including two chapters on its Egyptianizing features. Hochfield, Sylvia. 1978. Egyptomania in New York. ARTnews (December, 1978): 44-49. Holt, Frank L. 1986. Egyptomania: have we cursed the pharaohs? Archaeology 39.2 (March/April): 60-63. Hornung, Erik. 2001. The Secret Lore of Egypt and its Impact on the West. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. Humbert, Jean-Marcel. 1989. L’Égyptomanie dans l'Art Occidental. Paris: ??. A survey of the theme, concentrating on decorative arts. Humbert, Jean-Marcel, M. Pantazzi, C. Ziegler. 1994. Egyptomania: Egypt in Western art 1730-1930 (catalogue of exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, Jaunary-April 1994, also at Ottawa and Vienna). Ottawa: Publication Division of the National Museum of Canada. Humbert, Jean-Marcel (ed). 1996. L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre. Humbert, Jean-Marcel. 1996a. Introduction. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 21-35. Artistic adaptations of and deviations from original Egyptian material. Hunt, Katherine A. 2003. Beauty that endures: Egyptian revival in the 1920's. Thesis, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, University of Delaware. Iversen, Erik. 1961. The Myth of Egypt and its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition. ??:?? Iversen, Erik. 1993. The Myth of Egypt and its Hieroglyphs in
European Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press (Mythos.
The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology). Republication of Iversen
1961. Jaeger, B. 1995. La reviviscenza dell’Egitto antico nell’arte italiana dal Rinascimento ai giorni nostri. Studi di Egittologia e di Antichità Puniche (Pisa) 14: 33-49. Egyptian influence on Italian art since the Renaissance. Khan, Sophie. 1996. De la métaphore égyptienne à l’archéologie imaginaire: les fabulations de l’art contemporain. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 625-650. Egyptianizing works of contemporary art, including post-modernist works. Kuklick, B. 1996. Puritans in Babylon: the ancient Near East and American intellectual life, 1880-1930. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Leclant, Jean. 1996. Avant-propos. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 13-19. General remarks. Loring, John. 1979. Egyptomania: the Nile style. The Connoisseur 200: 114-121. MacDonald, Sally, Michael Rice (eds.) 2003. Consuming Ancient Egypt. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press. Collection of articles on ancient Egypt as present in modern society. Here: Cueva 2003; Haikal 2003; Hassan 2003; Humbert 2003; Lupton 2003; MacDonald 2003; Picknett & Prince 2003; Rice & MacDonald 2003; Schadla-Hall & Morris 2003; Schnitzler 2003; Serafy 2003; Walker 2003; Wheatcroft 2003. Maier, John. 1995. The ancient Near East in modern thought. In: Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Volume I Ed. Jack M. Sasson, John Baines, Gary Beckman, Karen S. Rubinson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons - Macmillan Library Reference: 107-120. Egypt and the Near East in popular culture, including literature and film. Malamud, Margaret. 2000. Pyramids in Las Vegas and in outer space: ancient Egypt in twentieth-century American architecture and film. Journal of Popular Culture 34.1 (Summer): 31-48. Mathieu, Bernard. 1994. Pharaons et rois de France: profanation et résurrection. In: Hommages à Jean Leclant. Volume.Volume 4: Varia. Ed. Catherine Berger, Gisèle Clerc; Nicolas Grimal. Le Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1994 = Bibliothèque d'étude, 106/4: 215-227. The influence of ancient Egypt in 18th century France. Merrillees, R. S. 1995. Egyptomania in Australia. Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 6: 77-87. Egyptian Revival in architecture and decorative arts. Meskell, L. 1998. Consuming bodies: cultural fantasies of ancient Egypt. Body and Society 4.1: 63-76. Morgan, Sarah. 1990. Art Deco: the European style. London: Bison. Includes discussion of Egyptian influences. Navratilova, Hana. 2003. Egyptian Revival in Bohemia: orientalism and Egyptomania in Czech lands. ??: David Brown Book Co./Czech Institute of Egyptology. The expression and causes of Egyptomania in 19th and 20th century Czech society. Patanè, Massimo. 1993. A che cosa serve lo studio delle civiltà antiche? Informazioni Dante (Genève) 49: 5-7. The impact of ancient Egypt on the present. Picknett, Lynn & Clive Prince. 2003. Alternative Egypts. In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 175-194. NEW 6/08: Plaza-Manning, Heather. 2008. Mummies and sphinxes and scarabs, oh my! Egyptianizing design in America. Kmt 19.1:77-82. Porterfield, Todd. 1994. Egyptomania! Western art that is inspired by Egyptian art, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Art in America (November): ??-??. Review of the exhibit for which Humbert &al. 1994 is the catalog. Online version available. Putnam, James & W. Vivian Davies (eds.) 1994. Time Machine: ancient Egypt and contemporary art, at the British Museum. London: British Museum/inIVA. Exhibition catalog. Works by contemporary artists influenced by Egyptian art. Artists were David Hiscock, Rita Keegan, Kate Whiteford, Igor Mitoraj, Marc Quinn, Jiri Kolar, Stephen Cox, Martin Riches, Peter Randall-Page, Andy Goldsworthy, Alexander Mihaylovich, and Liliane Karnouk. Putnam, James & W. Vivian Davies (eds.) 1995. Time Machine: ancient Egypt and contemporary art, at the Museo Egizio, Turin. London: British Museum/inIVA. Exhibition catalog. Works by contemporary artists influenced by Egyptian art. Artists were Francesco Clemente, Stephen Cox, Brian Eno, Andy Goldsworthy, David Hiscox, Jiri Kolar, Igor Mitoraj, Mimmo Paladino, Giuseppe Penone, Marc Quinn, Peter Randall-Page, Martin Riches, Kiki Smith, and Kan Yasuda. Rice, Michael
& Sally MacDonald. 2003. Introduction -- Tea with a Mummy: the consumer's
view of Egypt's immemorial appeal. In: Consuming Ancient Egypt.
Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt.
London: University College London Press: 1-22.
The attraction of Egypt and consumerism. Rowland, Ingrid D. 1995. Mother of the world. New York Review of Books: 42.13 (10 August 1995): ?-?. Review of Humbert &al. 1994. Online edition available. Shaw, Ian. 2004. Ancient Egypt; a very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter nine treats Egyptomania and fringe Egyptology. Silverman, D. 1987. The Curse of the Curse of the Pharaohs. Expedition 29: 56-63. Staehelin, Elisabeth & Bertrand Jaeger (eds). 1997. Ägypten-Bilder. Akten des »Symposions zur Ägypten-Rezeption«, Augst bei Basel vom 9.-11. September 1993. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 50. Freiburg: U. Freiburg. Trafton, Scott. 2004. Egypt Land: race and nineteenth-century American Egyptomania. New Americanists. ??: Duke University Press. The role of Egyptology in science, cultural politics, literature, the visual arts, and racial identity for both white and black Americans. van Rinsveld, Bernard. 1996. L’égyptomanie au service de la politique: la visite de Bonaparte à Bruxelles en 1803. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 367-423. The political aims of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign and the subsequent Egyptian inspiration in art. Warmenbol, Eugène. 1996. Le sphinx réfléchi ou les sources de l’égyptomanie au XIXe siècle. In: L’Égyptomanie à l’épreuve de l’archéologie. Actes du colloque international organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel du musée du Louvre. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert. Bruxelles, Éditions du Gram / Paris, Musée du Louvre = Conférences et colloques du Louvre: 59-96. Sources of Egyptian Revival architecture and early 20th century films. Wedge, E.F. (ed). 1977. Nefertiti Graffiti: comments on an exhibition. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum. Werner, Alex. 2003. Egypt in London - public and private displays in the 19th century metropolis. In: Imhotep Today: Egyptianizing architecture. Ed. Jean-Marcel Humbert and Clifford Price. London: UCL Press, Institute of Archaeology. Wheatcroft, Andrew. 2003. "Wonderful things": publishing Egypt in word and image. In: Consuming Ancient Egypt. Ed. Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice. Encounters with Ancient Egypt. London: University College London Press: 151-164 Whitehouse, Helen. 1995. Egypt in European thought. In: Civilizations of the Ancient Near East Volume I. Ed. Jack M. Sasson, John Baines, Gary Beckman, Karen S. Rubinson. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons - Macmillan Library Reference: 15-31. Egypt in mysticism, Egypt in the visual and performing arts, and also Pre-Napoleonic views of Egypt. Wildung, Dietrich. 1982. Gedanken zur Ägyptomanie. In: Archäologie und Gesellschaft: Forschung und öffentliches Interesse. Ed. B. Andreae. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft: 77-82. Winchester, Alice. 1966. Antiques. Antiques 90.4 (October,
1966): 481. Introductory remarks (including those critical of the Egyptian
Revival) for articles in the issue (here: Carrott
1966;
Gerdts 1966; Johnson
1966).
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