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Edges of Empire

Orientalism and Visual Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism. Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist tropes Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural and postcolonial studies Highlights contested identities and new definitions of self through topics such as 19th century monuments to Empire, cultural cross-dressing, performance and display at the international exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-09-20
Mått150 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Interventions in Art History
Antal sidor256
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405116893

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Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones is Professor of Art History and Provost at Richmond, The American International University in London. She is the author of (Re)Forming Identities: Intercultural Education and the Visual Arts (1998).Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Lecturer in British Art at the University of Sydney. She has co-edited two books: Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography (2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried (2000).

Series Editor's Preface. List of Illustrations.Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgements.Introduction: Visualising Culture across the Edges of Empire.(Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones).1. Commemorating the Empire: From Algiers to Damascus.(Zeynep Çelik).2. Out of the Earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty?.(Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby).3. Cultural Crossings: Sartorial Adventures, Satiric Narratives and the Question of Indigenous Agency in Nineteenth-Century Europe and the Near East. (Mary Roberts).4. "Oriental" Femininity as Cultural Commodity: Authorship, Authority and Authenticity. (Reina Lewis).5. The Sweet Waters of Asia: Representing Difference/Differencing Representation in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul. (Frederick N. Bohrer).6. The Work of Translation: Turkish Modernism and the "Generation of 1914". (Alastair Wright).7. Stolen or Shared: Ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum.(Sally MacDonald).8. Andalusia in the Time of the Moors: Regret and Colonial Presence in Paris, 1900. (Roger Benjamin).Bibliography (Hannah Williams).Index.