عنوان

Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth - Century World's Fairs

شماره

2216418

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

eng

عنوان اصلي

Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth - Century World's Fairs

نام نخستين پديدآور

Zeynep Celik.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Berkeley

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of California Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

1992

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xv, 245 p. : ill.

متن يادداشت

E.Book: 25239

متن يادداشت

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.Çelik 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. Çelik'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.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-234) and index.

موضوع مستند نشده

Islamic architecture--Europe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Architecture--Europe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Exhibition buildings--Europe--History--19th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Islamic architecture--United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Architecture--United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Exhibition buildings--United States--History--19th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Exoticism in architecture--Europe.

موضوع مستند نشده

Exoticism in architecture--United States.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Celik, Zeynep.