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The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450-1750: Visual Imagery before Orientalism

The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450-1750: Visual Imagery before Orientalism - Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

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Publisher's Synopsis

Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire - this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. Individual essays in this volume examine specific images or groups of images, problematizing the 'truths' they present and analyzing the contexts that shape the presentation of Ottoman or Islamic subject matter in European art. The contributors trace the transmission of early modern images and representations across national boundaries and across centuries to show how, through processes of translation that often involved multiple stages, the figure of the Turk (and by extension that of the Muslim) underwent a multiplicity of interpretations that reflect and reveal Western needs, anxieties and agendas. The essays reveal how anachronisms and inaccuracies mingled with careful detail to produce a "Turk," a figure which became a presence to reckon with in painting, sculpture, tapestry and printmaking.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781138248311
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
Edition: 1st edition
DEWEY: 704.9499561015
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 342
Weight: 520g
Height: 157mm
Width: 234mm
Spine width: 23mm