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"Edges of Empire" focuses on the intersection between modernization, modernism, and Orientalism. It is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture. The essays in this volume explore the connections and cross-fertilizations that occur across cultura...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470773901 |
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"Edges of Empire" focuses on the intersection between modernization, modernism, and Orientalism. It is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture. The essays in this volume explore the connections and cross-fertilizations that occur across cultural boundaries via the analysis of Ottoman and North African art practices, as well as the visual culture of European Orientalism. Contested identities and new definitions of self are highlighted in relation to topics as diverse as nineteenth-century monuments to empire, cultural cross-dressing, performance and display at the international exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice. This is a groundbreaking anthology that will be of great interest to scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies, and cultural and postcolonial studies. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-221) and index. |
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9780470773901 0470773901 1405153067 9781405153065 1280286075 9781280286070 |
| Index Number: | N7429 |
| CLC: | J0 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Visualising culture across the edges of empire / Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts -- Commemorating imperiality: from Algiers to Damascus / Zeynep Çelik -- Out of the earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty? / Darcy Grigsby -- Cultural crossings: sartorial adventures, satiric narratives and the question of indigenous agency in nineteenth-century Europe and the Near East / Mary Roberts -- "Oriental" femininity as cultural commodity: authorship, authority, and authenticity / Reina Lewis -- The sweet waters of Asia: representing difference/differencing representation in the nineteenth century / Frederick Bohrer -- The work of translation: Turkish modernism and the "generation of 1914" / Alistair Wright -- Stolen or shared: ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum / Sally McDonald -- Andalusia in the time of the Moors: regret and colonial presence in Paris, 1900 / Roger Benjamin. |