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This review is from: Images of the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
"Images of the Ottoman Empire" is a compilation of 90 color plates and 10 black and white illustrations drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum. The images are thematically grouped around chapters on Ambassadors, Travellers, Science, Art and Design, War, Trade and the Realm of the Imagination. Finally, each image is throughly described and placed into its proper historical context.What seperates this book from other books on Orientalist Art is that it is focused on the Ottoman Empire. Although, the Ottoman Empire may have been the Sick Man of Europe, the Empire continued to be a European political rival up until 1918. There is something more vital and martial about the way Ottomans were portrayed when compared to their North African contemporaries. There are few of the languid images that one associates with the likes of Jean-Leon Gerome. In some academic realms, Orientalism has been dismissed as being overly mannered, hostile and deprecatory. While there is some truth in this critique, the images presented in "Images of the Ottoman Empire" are beautifully done and have great historical and ethnographic merit. For those interested in Orientalism, I would highly recommend "The Lure of the East" by Thomans and "The Orientalists" by Davies. |
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Images of the Ottoman Empire by Charles Newton (Hardcover - March 1, 2007)
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