Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean (eBook)

Margaret S. Graves, Alex Dika Seggerman (Herausgeber)

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2022
282 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06036-5 (ISBN)

Infos

— This collection has been developed with course use in mind. Each of the essays is written with broad historical and cultural background as preparation for a more closely-focused study of individual topics. Front and back matter will also include maps, a timeline, and a glossary of terms. — The collection will offer coverage of aesthetic and cultural development in an area that is well-researched in terms of political history but not so in terms of art history. It also offers a selection of excellent work for nineteenth-century art instructors who seek to incorporate more global material in their survey courses. — The collection adds to the list's goals in its constructive engagement with an understudied era in an important field of Middle Eastern Studies, in its inclusion of metatextual material to help students and emerging scholars engage fully with the period, and in its clear and mostly jargon-free language. It also incorporates nearly 150 detailed color images to help the reader more fully engage with the subject. — The audience for the work is instructors of Islamic art courses and courses on nineteenth-century art, globalization, and Middle Eastern Studies.

Covering a range of media and a wide geographical spread, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean reveals how 19th-century artists in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspectives.

Autor

Margaret S. Graves is Associate Professor of Art History and Adjunct Associate Professor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. She is author of Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam (winner of the 2019 Annual Book Prize, International Center of Medieval Art, and the 2021 Karen Gould Prize, Medieval Academy of America).

Alex Dika Seggerman is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History at Rutgers University–Newark. She held postdoctoral fellowships at Smith College, Hampshire College, and Yale University. She is author of Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean, by Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman
Part I: Picturing Knowledge
1. Well-Worn Fashions: Repetition and Authenticity in Late Ottoman Costume Books, by Ünver Rüstem
2. Osman Hamdi and the Long Duration of History, by Gülru Çakmak
3. Picturing Knowledge: Visual Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Periodicals, by Hala Auji
4. The Muybridge Albums in Istanbul: Photography as Diplomacy in the Ottoman Empire, by Emily Neumeier
Part II: Conceptualizing Craft
5. The Double Bind of Craft Fidelity: Moroccan Ceramics on the Eve of the French Protectorate, by Margaret S. Graves
6. The Manual Crafts and the Challenge of Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Damascus, by Marcus Milwright
7. The Turn to Tapestry: Islamic Textiles and Women Artists in Tunis, by Jessica Gerschultz
Part III: Aesthetics of Infrastructure
8. Alabaster and Albumen: Photographs of the Muhammad Ali Mosque and the Making of a Modern Icon, by Alex Dika Seggerman
9. Tents and Trains: Mobilizing Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Ashley Dimmig
10. Precious Metal: The I-Beam in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Peter Christensen
11. November 1869: The Suez Canal Inauguration, by David J. Roxburgh
Timeline
Glossary
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2022
• Co-Autor: Ünver Rüstem, Gülru Çakmak, Hala Auji, Emily Neumeier, Marcus Milwright, Jessica Gerschultz, Ashley Dimmig, Peter Christensen, David J. Roxburgh
• Zusatzinfo: 145 color illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 220 x 220 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Architecture • Art History • Ceramics • craft • Cultural Exchange • Fashion • illustrated texts • Middle East • Modern • North Africa • painting • Political History • Religion • Textiles
• ISBN-10: 0-253-06036-2 / 0253060362
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-06036-5 / 9780253060365