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Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890

Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Mercedes Volait

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The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London, and beyond, uncovers the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in the trade of architectural salvage and historic handicraft, and traces impacts on private interiors, through creative reuse and Revival design, in Egypt, Europe and America. By devoting attention to both local and global engagements with Middle Eastern tangible heritage, the present volume invites to look anew at Orientalism in art and interior design, the canon of Islamic architecture and the translocation of historic works of art.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-05-20
Mått193 x 260 x 16 mm
Vikt790 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLeiden Studies in Islam and Society
Antal sidor284
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004449879

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AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Connecting Historiographies, Challenging Assumptions1 Things, People and Places2 Structure of the Book3 A Variety of Sources4 Data Re-Identification5 Revising the Narrative1 Early Shows and Sales of Islamic Antiques in Paris1 Orientalia at the Musée rétrospectif in 18652 Egyptian Architectural Salvage at the Exposition universelle of 18673 The Sale and Display of an Egyptian Collection in 18694 Shifting Trajectories and Contexts2 Expanding Trades in Late Ottoman Cairo and Damascus1 Distinctive Profiles and Iconic Artefacts2 The kursī as Global Commodity3 Market Adjustments3 Conflicted Commodification in Cairo1 Urban and Domestic Reform2 Inducement and Resistance to Commodification3 Contrasting Attitudes4 Fashioning Immersive Displays in Egypt and Beyond1 Atmospheric Interiors for Western Connoisseurs2 The Living Culture of Reuse in Egypt3 The Social Outreach of Revivalism4 Islamic Art as Intrinsically Architectural5 Guise and Disguise Before and During the Tanzimat1 Codification and the Intricacies of Cross-Cultural Dressing in Pre-Tanzimat Times2 Dressing Native in Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Back Home3 Costume for History and Leisure in Painting and Photography4 A Gendered Collecting CultureEpilogue: Diverging Routes1 Bygone Ways of Inhabiting the Past and the World2 Estrangements3 EndurancesReferencesPrimary SourcesWebsitesPrinted SourcesBibliographyIndices Index of Personal NamesIndex of Place NamesGeneral Index

"With Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850–1890, Volait has produced a truly ground-breaking study that should be required reading not only for scholars of Islamic art and architecture, but also for those of broader material culture studies. Its findings require us to approach questions of global material entanglement with greater nuance, even if we do not necessarily arrive at the same interpretive conclusions that Volait does. This is a book that will undoubtedly inspire a new generation of students to emulate the author’s rigorous research methodologies and think more critically about cultural appropriation and exchange.." Ellen Kenney, in: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 21/3 (2022)