Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture

Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Mary Roberts

Wiley, Oct 28, 2005 - Art - 230 pages

Edges of Empire focuses on the intersection between modernization, modernism, and Orientalism. It is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture. The essays in this volume explore the connections and cross-fertilizations that occur across cultural boundaries via the analysis of Ottoman and North African art practices, as well as the visual culture of European Orientalism. Contested identities and new definitions of self are highlighted in relation to topics as diverse as nineteenth-century monuments to empire, cultural cross-dressing, performance and display at the international exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice. This is a groundbreaking anthology that will be of great interest to scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies, and cultural and postcolonial studies.

About the author

Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones is Professor of Art History and Provost at Richmond, The American International University in London. She is the author of (Re)Forming Identities: Intercultural Education and the Visual Arts (1998).

Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Lecturer in British Art at the University of Sydney. She has co-edited two books: Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography (2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried (2000).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture; Volume 11 of New Interventions in Art History
• Editors: Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Mary Roberts
• Compiled by: Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones, Mary Roberts
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Wiley, 2005
• ISBN: 1405116889, 9781405116886
• Length: 230 pages
• Subjects: Art / General; Art / History / General