A l'Orientale: Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004410856 ISBN 13 : 9789004410855

Editeur : Brill, 2019

Synopsis

The present volume offers an overview of collecting and displaying Islamic art during the long nineteenth century. A section of the volume focuses on the figure of the Swiss collector Henri Moser Charlottenfels. Special attention is given to little-known collections in Eastern Europe and beyond. Louvrage fournit un panorama du collectionnisme dart islamique au cours du long XIXe siècle, en mettant laccent sur la figure dHenri Moser Charlottenfels et des collections méconnues situées en Europe central, et au-delà.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francine Giese is director of Vitrocentre and Vitromusée in Romont, Switzerland. From 2014-2019 she held a SNSF professorship at the Institute of Art History, University of Zürich, where she lead the research project Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe. She has widely published on Ibero-Islamic architecture, exchange and transfer processes and on architectural orientalism. Mercedes Volait is CNRS Research Professor at InVisu, Paris, and associated fellow to the Research Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has published extensively on art and architecture in Modern Egypt, and studies islamic art collecting from Egypt and Syria in the nineteenth century (with Moya Carey). Ariane Varela Braga, Ph.D., has worked as a research assistant on the SNSF project Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival (University of Zürich, 2014-2019). She is the author of monographs, edited volumes and articles on nineteenth-century theories of ornament and decorative arts, colored marbles and artistic migrations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004410856
• ISBN 13: 9789004410855
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Giese Francine, Volait Mercedes, Varela Braga Ariane
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible