TY - BOOK AU - Sweetman, John, TI - The oriental obsession: Islamic inspiration in British and American art and architecture 1500–1920 SN - 9780521407250 PY - 1991/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Architecture--Islamic influences KW - Art, American--Islamic influences KW - Art, British--Islamic influences N2 - "The book is concerned with a subject which has not been treated before - the history over four centuries of Islamic artistic traditions and European ideas of Islam as they affected the visual arts of the west and particularly the English-speaking peoples."-- ER -