Publication of this book has been supported by an award from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Research Board.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: O’Brien, David, 1962–, author.

Title: Exiled in modernity : Delacroix, civilization, and barbarism / David O’Brien.

Description: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary: “Focuses on Eugène Delacroix’s fascination with the idea of civilization and the ways this idea informed the artist’s writing, murals, and paintings of North Africa and animals”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017019499 | ISBN 9780271078595 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Delacroix, Eugène, 1798–1863—Criticism and interpretation. | Delacroix, Eugène, 1798–1863—Knowledge—Civilization. | Civilization in art. | Africa, North—In art. | Animals in art.

Classification: LCC ND553.D33 O23 2018 | DDC 700/.458—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017019499

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ADDITIONAL CREDITS: title spread, Eugène Delacroix, Ovid Among the Scythians, 1859. National Gallery, London. Bought, 1956. NG6262. Photo © National Gallery, London / Art Resource, New York; pages vi–vii, Eugène Delacroix, Studies After Rubens’s Lion Hunt, ca. 1854. Musée du Louvre, Paris. RF 9144, 22 (fol. 13r). Photo © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, New York (Michel Urtado).