Edges of empire : orientalism and visual culture / edited by Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts.
Published / Created:
Malden, MA ; Blackwell Pub., 2005.Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Physical Description:
xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
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Copyright Not Evaluated
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Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005004886.html
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Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-221) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : visualising culture across the edges of empires / Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones -- Commemorating the empire : from Algiers to Damascus / Zeynep Çelik -- Out of the earth : Egypt's statue of liberty / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby -- Cultural crossings : sartorial adventures, satiric narratives, and the question of indigenous agency in nineteenth-century Europe and the Near East / Mary Roberts -- "Oriental" femininity as cultural commodity : authorship, authority, and authenticity / Reina Lewis -- The sweet waters of Asia : representing difference/differencing representation in nineteenth-century Istanbul / Frederick N. Bohrer -- The work of translation : Turkish modernism and the "generation of 1914" / Alistair Wright -- Stolen or shared : ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum / Sally McDonald -- Andalusia in the time of the Moors : regret and colonial presence in Paris, 1900 / Roger Benjamin.
Subject Terms:
Intercultural communication in art. | Orientalism in art. | Art, European -- 19th century. | Art, Middle Eastern -- European influences. | Art, North African -- European influences.