Architecture and the Late Ottoman Historical Imaginary
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Ahmed III
Ahmed Vefik
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cross-cultural representation
Early Ottoman
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Gezi Park
Green Mosque
historicist architecture
Late Ottoman
Late Tanzimat
launay
marie
Marie De Launay
nineteenth-century revivalism
Onion Domes
Orientalist aesthetics
Osman Hamdi
Ottoman Architects
Ottoman architectural historiography
Ottoman Architectural Tradition
Ottoman Artistic
Ottoman Authors
Ottoman Commission
Ottoman Monuments
Ottoman Orders
Ottoman Renaissance
Ottoman Revival
Ottoman Section
Ottoman visual culture
Place De La Concorde
Selim III
Sunni Muslim Identity
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Usul-i Mimari-i Osmani
Vienna Exhibition
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- ISBN 9781472431394
- Weight: 839g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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While European eclecticism is examined as a critical and experimental moment in western art history, little research has been conducted to provide an intellectual depth of field to the historicist pursuits of late Ottoman architects as they maneuvered through the nineteenth century’s vast inventory of available styles and embarked on a revivalist/Orientalist program they identified as the ’Ottoman Renaissance.’ Ahmet A. Ersoy’s book examines the complex historicist discourse underlying this belated ’renaissance’ through a close reading of a text conceived as the movement’s canonizing manifesto: the Usul-i Mi’mari-i ’Osmani [The Fundamentals of Ottoman Architecture] (Istanbul, 1873). In its translocal, cross-disciplinary scope, Ersoy’s work explores the creative ways in which the Ottoman authors straddled the art-historical mainstream and their new, self-orientalizing aesthetics of locality. The study reveals how Orientalism was embraced by its very objects, the self-styled ’Orientals’ of the modern world, as a marker of authenticity, and a strategically located aesthetic tool to project universally recognizable images of cultural difference. Rejecting the lesser, subsidiary status ascribed to non-western Orientalisms, Ersoy’s work contributes to recent, post-Saidian directions in the study of cultural representation that resituate the field of Orientalism beyond its polaristic core, recognizing its cross-cultural potential as a polyvalent discourse.
Ahmet A. Ersoy is Associate Professor at the History Department at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He is the co-author, with Vangelis Kechriotis and Maciej Gorny, of Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeastern Europe (1775-1945): Texts and Commentaries, Vol. III / I (2010).
