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Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture

By Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones , Mary Roberts

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2005
ISBN
1405116889, 9781405116886, 9781405153065
Open Library ID
OL8405348M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2490883 bytes)
Series
New Interventions in Art History
Pages
240\246
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Edges of Empire focuses on the intersection between modernization, modernism, and Orientalism. It is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture. The essays in this volume explore the connections and cross-fertilizations that occur across cultural boundaries via the analysis of Ottoman and North African art practices, as well as the visual culture of European Orientalism. Contested identities and new definitions of self are highlighted in relation to topics as diverse as nineteenth-century monuments to empire, cultural cross-dressing, performance and display at the international exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice. This is a groundbreaking anthology that will be of great interest to scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies, and cultural and postcolonial studies.

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