Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture

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Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Mary Roberts
John Wiley & Sons, 15 apr 2008 - 256 pagina's
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.
 

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Orientalism and Visual Culture Introduction Visualizing Culture across the Edges of Empires
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Orientalism and Visual Culture 1 Commemorating the Empire From Algiers to Damascus
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Orientalism and Visual Culture 2 Out of the Earth Egypts Statue of Liberty
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Orientalism and Visual Culture 3 Cultural Crossings Sartorial Adventures Satiric Narratives and the Question of Indigenous Agency in NineteenthCen...
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Orientalism and Visual Culture 4 Oriental Femininity as Cultural Commodity Authorship Authority and Authenticity
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Orientalism and Visual Culture 5 The Sweet Waters of Asia Representing DifferenceDifferencing Representation in NineteenthCentury Istanbul
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Orientalism and Visual Culture 6 The Work of Translation Turkish Modernism and the Generation of 1914
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Orientalism and Visual Culture 7 Stolen or Shared Ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum
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Orientalism and Visual Culture 8 Andalusia in the Time of the Moors Regret and Colonial Presence in Paris 1900
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Orientalism and Visual Culture Bibliography
206
Orientalism and Visual Culture Index
222
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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).

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