{"product_id":"mediterranean-encounters-artists-between-europe-and-the-ottoman-empire-17741839-9780271085067","title":"Mediterranean Encounters Artists Between Europe","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on travel images and cross-cultural exchange, examines interactions between the Ottoman Empire and Europeans from 1774 to 1839, highlighting mutual dependence and reciprocity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This fine new book invites the admiration of those who value superb scholarship and a presentation worthy of bibliophilic tradition.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Roger Benjamin \u003ci\u003eH-France\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book obviously speaks to scholars of art history and imperial history and to students of books and printing, yet the complex tapestries unraveled and rewoven in each chapter speak as well to questions of national identity, anti-imperialism, artistic autonomy, and originality and borrowing. Fraser’s careful and systematic analyses of illustrations and texts in multiple contexts across disciplinary debates should not only speak to specialists but also interest and teach others for whom these travel books may be an introduction to the borderlands and crossings of Mediterranean empires to records one can still read—after centuries of distance—as lessons in global exchange. Summing up: Essential.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—G. W. McDonogh \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Elisabeth Fraser’s wonderful book tells us the story of the arduous efforts by artists and publishers alike to produce and circulate paintings and prints about the Ottoman Empire in the period 1774–1839. She argues for the importance of Choiseul-Gouffier’s massive \u003ci\u003eVoyage pittoresque\u003c\/i\u003e in establishing a template for representation that influenced both European and Ottoman artists and offers rare insights into an evolving French-Ottoman cultural milieu in the period of global transition from collaborative to invasive empires.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Virginia Aksan,author of \u003ci\u003eOttoman Wars, 1700–1870\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Moving beyond the conventional Orientalist narrative, \u003ci\u003eMediterranean Encounters \u003c\/i\u003econvincingly connects European travel images and Ottoman visual culture, as well as art and diplomacy, in the early days of European expansion and Ottoman reassertion. In doing so, this work offers a fresh and welcome account of the successes, contingencies, and contradictions of cross-cultural contact.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Mercedes Volait,Institut national d’histoire de l’art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A major contribution to the field, \u003ci\u003eMediterranean Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e brings together art history, Ottoman studies, cultural history, and globalization debates to tell several intertwining stories. At the heart of this book is a far-reaching analysis of the illustrated travel book and the precarious relationship between word and image. Stunningly researched and hugely enjoyable to read, it will be useful for anyone interested in the history of the book trade, travel, and European-Ottoman encounters in the modern period.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Nebahat Avcıoğlu,Hunter College, CUNY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Through her examination of some fascinating images and travel writings from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Elisabeth Fraser makes a compelling argument for the complexity and interdependence of European-Ottoman relations and the exchange, reciprocity, cultural mediation, and even collaboration that characterized them.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Michèle Hannoosh,University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With its rich archival research and visual analyses, often movingly informed by personal passion for her subjects, Elisabeth Fraser’s \u003ci\u003eMediterranean Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e redresses the asymmetry in scholarship on Franco-Ottoman relations by ‘reading travel images through Ottoman history and culture.’”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Sussan Babaie,author of \u003ci\u003eIsfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi‘ism, and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fraser’s astute analysis of Ottoman identity as both ambiguous and hybrid transcends deep-rooted Orientalist arguments about the fixity of cultural belonging, which her text demonstrates is never fixed at all. Indeed, it is this quality [of] transcendence that makes \u003ci\u003eMediterranean Encounters\u003c\/i\u003e a truly exciting new book—for the world was global, connected, and contingent long before the advent of more modern technologies and digital networks.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Erin Hyde Nolan \u003ci\u003eH-AMCA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A welcome contribution to the growing scholarship on representations of alterity that looks beyond the Saidian binary of an ever-authorial and authoritative West and subservient East (one that she rightfully asserts has injuriously transcended Said’s own ‘own supple thinking’). Her work also poses a powerful critique of Bernard Lewis’s Ottoman-decline paradigm in his 2002 book \u003ci\u003eWhat Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response.\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Deniz Türker \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Islamic Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Interpreting Travel in the Ottoman Mediterranean\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Power in Question\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1\tReading Choiseul in the Gaps of the Orientalist Archive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2\tIn the Shadow of les Grands: Cassas’s Orientalist Self-Fashioning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Ottoman Culture Abroad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3\tThe Translator’s Art: Mouradgea d’Ohsson, Ottoman Dragoman in Paris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4\tMiniatures in Black and White: Melling’s Istanbul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Contradictory Contact\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5\tSkin of Nation, Body of Empire: Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6\tA Painter’s Renunciation: Delacroix in North Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostscript\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864313016663,"sku":"9780271085067","price":39.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271085067.jpg?v=1722271357","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediterranean-encounters-artists-between-europe-and-the-ottoman-empire-17741839-9780271085067","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}