Hackforth-Jones / Roberts Edges of Empire

Orientalism and Visual Culture
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5306-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Interventions in Art History

Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history andlegacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus onthe intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism.
* Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices ofcollection and display, and a survey of key Orientalisttropes
* Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars andstudents of art history, architecture, museum studies and culturaland postcolonial studies
* Highlights contested identities and new definitions of selfthrough topics such as 19th century monuments to Empire, culturalcross-dressing, performance and display at the internationalexhibitions, 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 ofEmpire.
(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 Narrativesand the Question of Indigenous Agency in Nineteenth-Century Europeand the Near East. (Mary Roberts).
4. "Oriental" Femininity as Cultural Commodity: Authorship,Authority and Authenticity. (Reina Lewis).
5. The Sweet Waters of Asia: RepresentingDifference/Differencing Representation in Nineteenth-CenturyIstanbul. (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 ColonialPresence in Paris, 1900. (Roger Benjamin).
Bibliography (Hannah Williams).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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