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Book SynopsisTakes a fresh look at Orientalism by shifting its centre from Europe to Ottoman Istanbul and thinking about art in terms of exchange, reciprocity, and comparative imperialisms
Trade Review"This rich collection of essays displays a host of new ideas, questions, and insights that spring from centering the study of British and Ottoman Orientalist art in Istanbul, not London, and in a particularly Ottoman milieu of connection, collaboration, and reinvention." -Leslie Peirce, New York University "Opens a new window to the study of Orientalist art with a series of intriguing case studies drawn from the nineteenth century British and late Ottoman visual cultures [and] discussions of contemporary art markets and the politics of curating." -Zeynep Celik, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface / Suna, Inan and Ipek Kirac
Introduction: Disruptive Geographies / Mary Roberts, Reina Lewis and Zeynep Inankur
Part I: Institutions, Collections, Exhibitions
I. Staging The Lure of the East: Exhibition Making and Orientalism / Christine Riding
II. Cultural Exchange and the Politics of Pleasure / Reina Lewis
III. Bringing It Home? Orientalist Painting and the Art Market / Nicholas Tromans
IV. The Searight Collection / Sarah Searight
V. Cultural Consignment and Cultural (Ex)Change / Donald Preziosi
VI. Orientalism and Photography / Nancy Micklewright
Part II: Constructing History and the Politics of Place
VII. Between the Sublime and the Picturesque: Mourning Modernization and the Production of Orientalist Landscape in Thomas Allom and Reverend Robert Walsh's Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor (c. 1839) / Wendy M. K. Shaw
VIII. Genealogies of Display: Cross-Cultural Networks at the 1880s Istanbul Exhibitions / Mary Roberts
IX. Osman Hamdi Bey and the Historiophile Mood: Orientalist Vision and the Romantic Sense of the Past in Late Ottoman Culture / Ahmet Ersoy
X. Traveling East: Veiling, Race, and Nations / Teresa Heffernan
XI. "Solitary Eagle"?: The Public and Private Personas of John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) / Briony Llewellyn
XII. An Ottoman Traveler to the Orient: Osman Hamdi Bey / Edhem Eldem
Part III. Cultural Mediators, Boundaries, Exchanges
XIII. Mary Adelaide Walker / Zeynep Inankur
XIV. The Dragoman Who Commissioned His Own Portrait / Aykut Gurcaglar
XV. European Artists at the Ottoman Court: Propogating a New Dynastic Image in the Nineteenth Century / Gunsel Renda
XVI. The Interpretation of Pictorial Space in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Landscape Painting / Semra Germaner
XVII. Orientalism and Aestheticism / Tim Barringer
XVIII. The Reception of John Frederick Lewis at the Exposition Universelle in 1855 / Peter Benson Miller
Notes on Contributors
Index
