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

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Contents: 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.

Topic: Intercultural communication in art; Orientalism in art; Art, European; Art, Middle Eastern--European influences; Art, North African--European influences