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Article: The Alhambra.(Book review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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The Alhambra. By ROBERT IRWIN. Cambridge, Massachusetts: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004. Pp. 213. $19.95.
Robert Irwin, following a basic and factual chronology presented in the form of a chart, opens the introductory chapter of his study of the Alhambra with a selection of some of the more lurid "fantasies" which have entered popular discourse concerning the Alhambra. This is followed by a disclaimer, in which the author notes that he has merely culled these bits and pieces from currently available guidebooks to the palace, and that they are offered up, not for indiscriminate consumption, but as a sort of "Exhibit A" ("Not one 'fact' in the preceding two ...