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OverviewThe Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content. Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean charts transformations in image-making, architecture, and craft production in the Islamic world from Fez to Istanbul. Contributors focus on the shifting methods of production, reproduction, circulation, and exchange artists faced as they worked in fields such as photography, weaving, design, metalwork, ceramics, and even transportation. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Margaret S. Graves , Alex Dika Seggerman , Ünver Rüstem , Gülru ÇakmakPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253060334ISBN 10: 0253060338 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 19 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsThis book is a timely contribution to pressing debates about visual cultures of modernity across the modern Mediterranean. With a geographic diversity reaching from the Ottoman capital across North Africa, the essays in this book address a rich range of themes, from emergent forms of modern historicism to original readings of objects and images that trouble entrenched assumptions about aesthetic value. So too, this book's revisionary perspective makes clear the necessity to address the diversity of visual culture, from painting to photography, from craft work to infrastructure. The collective enterprise of this anthology transforms our understanding of what it meant to be modern across the Islamic Mediterranean.--Mary Roberts, author of Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, University of Sydney Author InformationMargaret 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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