Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Malden, MA ; Oxford, UK ; Carlton, Victoria, Australia : Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

Description:

xiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

New interventions in art history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

Summary:

"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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Rutgers restricted
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781405116886 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
1405116889 (hard cover ; alk. paper)
9781405116893 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1405116897 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780470773901
0470773901

Subject:

Intercultural communication in art.
Orientalism in art.
Art, European 19th century.
Art, Middle Eastern European influences.
Art, North African European influences.
Communication interculturelle dans l'art.
Orientalisme dans l'art.
Art européen 19e siècle.
Art moyen-oriental Influence européenne.
Art maghrébin Influence européenne.
Art, European.
Oriëntalisme.
Beeldcultuur.
Interculturele communicatie.
Kunst.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Exoticism in art.
Orientalism i konsten.
Europeisk konst 1800-talet.
Mellanösternkonst europeiska influenser.
Nordafrikansk konst europeiska influenser.
Interkulturell kommunikation.
Middle East Civilization European influences.
Africa, North Civilization European influences.

Added entries:

Hackforth-Jones, Jos, editor.
Roberts, Mary, 1965- editor.
Hackforth-Jones, Jocelyn.
Roberts, Mary, 1965-
New interventions in art history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 241612
Call No.: BIB 171474
Status: Available