Edges of Empire
Orientalism and Visual Culture
New Interventions in Art History
1. Auflage September 2005
248 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
* Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of
collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist
tropes
* Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and
students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural
and postcolonial studies
* Highlights contested identities and new definitions of self
through topics such as 19th century monuments to Empire, cultural
cross-dressing, performance and display at the international
exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice.
List of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Introduction: Visualising Culture across the Edges of
Empire.
(Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones).
1. Commemorating the Empire: From Algiers to Damascus.
(Zeynep Çelik).
2. Out of the Earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty?.
(Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby).
3. Cultural Crossings: Sartorial Adventures, Satiric Narratives
and the Question of Indigenous Agency in Nineteenth-Century Europe
and the Near East. (Mary Roberts).
4. "Oriental" Femininity as Cultural Commodity: Authorship,
Authority and Authenticity. (Reina Lewis).
5. The Sweet Waters of Asia: Representing
Difference/Differencing Representation in Nineteenth-Century
Istanbul. (Frederick N. Bohrer).
6. The Work of Translation: Turkish Modernism and the
"Generation of 1914". (Alastair Wright).
7. Stolen or Shared: Ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum.
(Sally MacDonald).
8. Andalusia in the Time of the Moors: Regret and Colonial
Presence in Paris, 1900. (Roger Benjamin).
Bibliography (Hannah Williams).
Index.
Provost at Richmond, The American International University in
London. She is the author of (Re)Forming Identities:
Intercultural Education and the Visual Arts (1998).
Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Lecturer in British
Art at the University of Sydney. She has co-edited two books:
Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture,
Photography (2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the
Writings of Michael Fried (2000).
