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Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture
Contributor(s): Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn (Editor), Roberts, Mary (Editor)
ISBN: 1405116889     ISBN-13: 9781405116886
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $155.38  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2005
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Annotation: "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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BISAC Categories:
- Art | History - General
Dewey: 303.482
LCCN: 2005004886
Series: New Interventions in Art History
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.18" W x 9.08" (1.07 lbs) 248 pages
 
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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.