Title & Author:

Walls of Algiers : narratives of the city through text and image / edited by Zeynep Çelik, Julia Clancy-Smith, and Frances Terpak.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute ; Seattle : in association with University of Washington Press, ©2009.

Description:

ix, 283 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 26 cm

Notes:
Issued in connection with the workshop held May 2004, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-266) and index.
Peoples. Exoticism, erasures, and absence: the peopling of Algiers, 1830-1900 / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Medina and modernity: the emergence of Muslim civil society in Algiers between the two World Wars / Omar Carlier -- Images. The promise and power of new technologies: nineteenth-century Algiers / Frances Terpak -- The houses of Algiers in French colonial discourse / Zeynep Çelik -- The invisible prison: representing Algiers on film / Eric Breitbart -- Places. Masking and unmasking the historic quarters of Algiers: the reassessment of an archive / Isabelle Grangaud -- Historic intersections: the center of Algiers / Zeynep Çelik -- Historiographies of Algiers: critical reflections / Patricia M.E. Lorcin.

Summary:

Walls of Algiers examines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the "Bulwark of Islam," into "Alger la blanche," the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. In this volume, the city of Algiers serves as a case study for the analysis of the proactive and reactive social, political, technical, and artistic forces that generate a city's form. Visual sources - prints, photographs, paintings, architectural drawings, urban designs, and film - are treated as primary evidence that complements and even challenges textual documents. -- Publisher description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780295988689 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0295988681 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture and society Algeria Algiers Congresses.
Architecture et société Algérie Alger Congrès.
Architecture and society
Kultur
Sozialgeschichte
Stadtentwicklung
Algiers (Algeria) Congresses.
Algeria Algiers
Algier
Alger
Algiers (Algeria) History.

Form/genre:

Kongress Los Angeles (Calif.) 2004.
Exhibition publications.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Çelik, Zeynep.
Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann.
Terpak, Frances, 1948-
Getty Research Institute.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 265284
Call No.: BIB 196727
Status: Available