Featuring stunning visuals, this book puts art history in the context of cultural, visual, and literary studies, challenging the orthodoxies of postcolonial theory with the materiality of multiple imperialisms and modernities to offer a new take on the collection, display and consumption of Orientalist cultures.
Zeynep Inankur is a professor of art history at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul and coauthor of "Constantinople and the Orientalists." Reina Lewis is Artscom Centenary Professor of Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and author of "Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem." Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Associate Professor of British Art at the University of Sydney and author of "Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman" and "Orientalist Art and Travel Literature." Other contributors include Tim Barringer, Edhem Eldem, Ahmet Ersoy, Semra Germaner, Aykut Gurcaglar, Teresa Heffernan, Briony Llewellyn, Nancy Micklewright, Peter Benson Miller, Donald Preziosi, Gunsel Renda, Christine Riding, Sarah Searight, Wendy Shaw, and Nicholas Tromans.
"This rich collection of essays displays a host of new ideas, questions, and insights that spring from centering the study of British and Ottoman Orientalist art in Istanbul, not London, and in a particularly Ottoman milieu of connection, collaboration, and reinvention." -Leslie Peirce, New York University
"Opens a new window to the study of Orientalist art with a series of intriguing case studies drawn from the nineteenth century British and late Ottoman visual cultures and] discussions of contemporary art markets and the politics of curating." -Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology"
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Featuring stunning visuals, this book puts art history in the context of cultural, visual, and literary studies, challenging the orthodoxies of postcolonial theory with the materiality of multiple imperialisms and modernities to offer a new take on the collection, display and consumption of Orientalist cultures.
Zeynep Inankur is a professor of art history at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul and coauthor of "Constantinople and the Orientalists." Reina Lewis is Artscom Centenary Professor of Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, and author of "Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem." Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Associate Professor of British Art at the University of Sydney and author of "Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman" and "Orientalist Art and Travel Literature." Other contributors include Tim Barringer, Edhem Eldem, Ahmet Ersoy, Semra Germaner, Aykut Gurcaglar, Teresa Heffernan, Briony Llewellyn, Nancy Micklewright, Peter Benson Miller, Donald Preziosi, Gunsel Renda, Christine Riding, Sarah Searight, Wendy Shaw, and Nicholas Tromans.
"This rich collection of essays displays a host of new ideas, questions, and insights that spring from centering the study of British and Ottoman Orientalist art in Istanbul, not London, and in a particularly Ottoman milieu of connection, collaboration, and reinvention." -Leslie Peirce, New York University
"Opens a new window to the study of Orientalist art with a series of intriguing case studies drawn from the nineteenth century British and late Ottoman visual cultures and] discussions of contemporary art markets and the politics of curating." -Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology"
Imprint | University of Washington Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | December 2010 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | December 2010 |
Editors | Zeynep Inankur, Reina Lewis, Mary Roberts |
Dimensions | 241 x 279 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 288 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-295-99110-8 |
Barcode | 9780295991108 |
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LSN | 0-295-99110-0 |