Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam At Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs [Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies - #12]

Zeynep Çelik (Author); Barbara D. Metcalf (General Editor); William R. Roff, Katherine P. Ewing, Raymond Lifchez, et al. (Edited by); John Davis, Yohanan Friedmann, David Gilmartin, et al. (Contributors)

ISBN 10: 0520074947 / ISBN 13: 9780520074941

Edité par University of California Press & University of California Press, Ltd., Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA & Oxford, England, UK, 1992

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• Titre: Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam At Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs [Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies - #12]
• Éditeur: University of California Press & University of California Press, Ltd., Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA & Oxford, England, UK
• Date de parution: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0520074947
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780520074941
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Steve Renick (Jacket Design)
• Édition: © 1992 by The Regents of the University
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Like New
• État de la jaquette: Like New

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Synopsis

Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism "en place". Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts and presented to 19th-century men and women as the world in microcosm, giving a quick and seemingly realistic impression of distant pieces. The author examines the display of Islamic cultures at 19th-century world's fairs, focusing on the exposition architecture. She asserts that certain socio-political and cultural trends now crucial to our understanding of historical transformations in both the West and the world of Islam were mirrored in the fair's architecture. Furthermore, dominant attitudes toward cross-cultural exchanges were revealed repeatedly in Westerner's responses to these pavilions, in Western architects' interpretations of Islamic stylistic traditions, and in the pavilions' impact in such urban centres. Although the world's fairs claimed to be platforms for peaceful cultural communication, they displayed the world according to a hierarchy based on power relations. The author's delineation of this hierarchy in the exposition building enables us to understand both the adversarial relations between the West and the Middle East, and the issue of cultural self-definition for Muslim societies of the 19th century.

À propos de l'auteur

Zeynep Çelik is Associate Professor of Architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of The Remaking of Istanbul (Washington, 1986).