The poetics and politics of place: Ottoman Istanbul and British orientalism. Editör: ZEYNEP İNANKUR, REINA LEWIS, MARY ROBERTS. Pera Museum, İst., 2011.

Özgün karton kapağında, çok temiz durumda, 30 x 24 cm, İngilizce, 285 sayfa, renkli resimli. "This unique collection takes a fresh look at Orientalism by shifting its center from Europe to Ottoman Istanbul and thinking about art in terms of exchange, reciprocity, and comparative imperialisms. This new lens reveals the essential role of the Ottoman city and its patrons and artists in the dialogues that facilitated production, circulation, and consumption of British Orientalist cultures. In this volume, art works are conceptualized as traveling artifacts produced through localized interactions. World renowned scholars and curators analyze the diverse audiences for such art works and the range of differing contexts for their reception both in the 19th century and more recently. In this way, British art is put into a dynamic relationship with an historicized understanding of cultures of collecting and display during the formation of comparative modernities and also with the contemporary po