Edges of Empire

Orientalism and Visual Culture

Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Mary Roberts (Herausgeber)

Software / Digital Media

240 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Hersteller)
978-0-470-77390-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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).

Inhalt

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 Celik). 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2008
• Reihe/Serie: New Interventions in Art History
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 166 x 240 mm
• Gewicht: 494 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• ISBN-10: 0-470-77390-1 / 0470773901
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-77390-1 / 9780470773901
• Zustand: Neuware