Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture

by Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones

Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism. Covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist tropes Contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural and postcolonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405116889
• ISBN13: 9781405116886
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"