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Displaying the Orient : architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs
- Title
- Displaying the Orient : architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs / Zeynep Çelik.
- Author
- Çelik, Zeynep.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xv, 245 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- 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 nineteenth-century men and women as the world in microcosm, giving a quick and seemingly realistic impression of distant places. Celik examines the display of Islamic cultures at nineteenth-century world's fairs, focusing on the exposition architecture. She asserts that certain sociopolitical 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 Westerners' responses to these pavilions, in Western architects' interpretations of Islamic stylistic traditions, and in the pavilions' impact in such urban centers. 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. Celik's delineation of this hierarchy in the exposition buildings 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 nineteenth century.
- Series Statement
- Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 12
- Uniform Title
- Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 12.
- Subjects
- Exhibition buildings
- Islamic architecture
- Architecture
- Exhibition buildings > United States > History > 19th century
- Islamic architecture > United States
- Architecture > Europe
- Architecture > United States
- United States
- History
- Exhibition buildings > Europe > History > 19th century
- Europe
- Islamic architecture > Europe
- Exoticism in architecture > Europe
- 1800-1899
- Exoticism in architecture > United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
- Contents
- Muslim visitors to world's fairs -- Islamic quarters in western cities -- Search for identity: architecture of national pavilions -- Exposition fever carried East -- The impact.
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-4459
- ISBN
- 0520074947
- 9780520074941
- LCCN
- 91013594
- OCLC
- 23463022
- Author
- Çelik, Zeynep.
- Title
- Displaying the Orient : architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs / Zeynep Çelik.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 12Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 12.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index.
- Additional Formats
- A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-4459