Edges of Empire

Orientalism and Visual Culture
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1689-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 222 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn

Roberts, Mary

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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).