Benjamin, Roger

Roger Benjamin has been appointed Power Professor of Art History and Visual Culture and Director of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney. He is author of "Orientalism: Delacroix to Klee "(1997), "Matisse's "Notes of a Painter": Criticism, Theory, and Context "(1987), the forthcoming title, "Renoir and Algeria, " and winner of the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize of the CAA for his article "The Decorative Landscape, Fauvism, and the Arabesque of Observation" (1993).