Description

Paperback. Small 4to. (25 x 21 cm). In English, French, and Turkish. 164 p., color ills. 1001 nuits.= 1001 nights.= 1001 gece. [Exhibition catalogue]. What you will find in the exhibit The Thousand and One Nights: Accessories, sketches for costumes for operas and ballets, created by Christian Lacroix and Franca Squarciapino, works that marked a milestone and which had considerable impact in both France and the entire world; Manuscripts of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, relating the tales, along with the journals of Antoine Galland, who was an envoy to the East during the reign of Louis XIV; Paintings, statues, tapestries and decorative objects that reflect the magnificence of the palace, another important "character" that figures in The Thousand and One Nights; Installations by contemporary artists Feleksan Onar and Sühandan Özay Demirkan; Musical instruments from the East.