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Title

À l'orientale : collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art and architecture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / edited by Francine Giese, Mercedes Volait, Ariane Varela Braga.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Giese, Francine
• Volait, Mercedes
• Varela Braga, Ariane, 1978-

Description

xvi, 224 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Summary

"The present volume offers a collection of essays that examine the mechanisms and strategies of collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many studies in this book concentrate on lesser known collections of Islamic art, situated in Central and Eastern Europe that until now have received little attention from scholars. A section of the volume focuses on the figure of the Swiss collector Henri Moser Charlottenfels, whose important, still largely unstudied collection of Islamic art is now being preserved at the Bernisches Historisches Museum, Switzerland. Contributors to the volume include young researchers and established scholars from Western and Eastern Europe and beyond: Albert Lutz (foreword), Roger Nicholas Balsiger, Moya Carey, Valentina Colonna, Francine Giese, Hélène Guérin, Barbara Karl, Katrin Kaufmann, Sarah Keller, Agnieszka Kluczewska Wójcik, Inessa Kouteinikova, Axel Langer, Maria Medvedeva, Ágnes Sebestyén, Alban von Stockhausen, Ariane Varela Braga, Mercedes Volait. Les contributions de l'ouvrage examinent le mécanisme et les stratégies relatifs à la collection, la présentation et l'appropriation des arts de l'Islam au XIXe siècle et début du XXe siècle. Elles mettent l'accent sur des collections situées en Europe centrale et orientale, lesquelles ont été peu étudiées jusqu'à présent. Une partie de l'ouvrage est dédiée à la figure du collectionneur Suisse Henri Moser Charlottenfels, dont les objets se trouvent aujourd'hui au Bernisches Historisches Museum (Suisse) et qui ont été de même peu étudiés. Les textes émanent de jeunes chercheurs comme de chercheurs confirmés, basés en Europe occidentale et orientale, et au-delà"--

Series Statement

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world, 2213-3844 ; volume 14

Subjects

• Art > Collectors and collecting
• Art > Collectors and collecting > Western countries > History > 19th century
• Islamic art > Appreciation > Western countries
• History
• Western countries
• 1800-1999
• Islamic art > Private collections > Western countries
• Art > Collectors and collecting > Western countries > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• 10 English, 5 French contributions.

Contents

Honoring Henri Moser Charlottenfels: From Silkworm Exporter to Explorer, Diplomat and Collector: The Illustrious Life of Henri Moser / Roger Nicholas Balsiger grandnephew of Henri Moser Charlottenfels -- Introduction: Islamic Art and Architecture Exposed / Francine Giese, Mercedes Volait and Ariane Varela Braga -- Part 1. Islamic Taste in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: -- Safavid Revival in Persian Miniature Painting : Renewal, Imitation and Source of Inspiration / Axel Langer -- ± De véritables merveilles d'exécution : Les vitraux du fumoir arabe d'Henri Moser / Sarah Keller -- L'art islamique et la fabrique de l'Histoire des musulmans de Sicile de Michele Amari / Hélène Guérin -- Orientalisme versus orientalité : La nouvelle appréciation des arts de l'Islam en Pologne au début du xxe siècle / Agnieszka Kluczewska-Wójcik -- Part 2. Appropriation, Reuse and Eclecticism: -- Appropriating Damascus Rooms: Vincent Robinson, Caspar Purdon Clarke and Commercial Strategy in Victorian London / Moya Carey -- Le remploi de grands décors mamelouks et ottomans dans l'œuvre construit d'Ambroise Baudry en Égypte et en France / Mercedes Volait -- International Fashion and Personal Taste: Neo-Islamic Style Rooms and Orientalizing Scenographies in Private Museums / Francine Giese -- Pages: 92-108 -- Part 3. Museums and International Exhibitions: -- Carpets and Empire: The 1891 Exhibition at the Handelsmuseum in Vienna / Barbara Karl -- Henri Moser as Commissioner General of the Pavilion of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris / Ágnes Sebestyén -- Samarcande au nord et à l'ouest: Appropriation(s) de l'architecture timouride à Saint-Pétersbourg et à Berne / Katrin Kaufmann -- Tashkent in St. Petersburg: The Constructed Image of Central Asia in Russia's Nineteenth-Century Ethnographic Exhibitions / Inessa Kouteinikova -- Part 4. Collectors and Networks: -- "Troppo amanti degli oggetti orientali"? : Ferdinando Panciatichi Ximenes d'Aragona, a Collector of Islamic Art in Nineteenth-Century Florence / Ariane Varela Braga -- The Arab Room of Achille Vertunni: Islamic Art in the Streets of Rome / Valentina Colonna -- "Our aim is to perform something that remains after we are gone": The Oriental Collection Henri Moser Charlottenfels at Bernisches Historisches Museum / Alban von Stockhausen -- Yakov Smirnov's Photo Collection: The Orient in Nineteenth-Century Photography / Maria Medvedeva.

Call Number

JQF 20-509

ISBN

• 9789004410855
• 9004410856
• 9789004412644 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019042133
• 9789004410855

OCLC

1120906630

Title

À l'orientale : collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art and architecture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / edited by Francine Giese, Mercedes Volait, Ariane Varela Braga.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Arts and archaeology of the Islamic world, 2213-3844 ; volume 14

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

10 English, 5 French contributions.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Added Author

Giese, Francine, editor.

Volait, Mercedes, editor.

Varela Braga, Ariane, 1978- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: À l'orientale Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020 9789004412644 (DLC) 2019042134

Other Standard Identifier

9789004410855

Research Call Number

JQF 20-509