Edges of empire : orientalism and visual culture / edited by Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts.

Contributor(s): Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn | Roberts, Mary, 1965-Material type: TextTextSeries: New interventions in art historyPublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005Description: xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781405116886 (hard cover : alk. paper); 1405116889 (hard cover : alk. paper); 9781405116893 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1405116897 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Intercultural communication in art | Orientalism in art | Art, European -- 19th century | Art, Middle Eastern -- European influences | Art, North African -- European influencesDDC classification: 303.48 LOC classification: N7429 | .E34 2005Online resources: Table of contents | Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Introduction: Visualising culture across the edges of empire / Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts -- Commemorating imperiality: from Algiers to Damascus / Zeynep Çelik -- Out of the earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty? / Darcy 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 the nineteenth century / Frederick 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-221) and index.

Introduction: Visualising culture across the edges of empire / Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts -- Commemorating imperiality: from Algiers to Damascus / Zeynep Çelik -- Out of the earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty? / Darcy 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 the nineteenth century / Frederick 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.

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