'Turquerie' and the Politics of Representation, 1728-1876
Author | : Nebahat Avcioglu |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780754664222 |
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Devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in this study Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected constructions, and links them to notions of self-representation and politics.