Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean
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Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean
W038514 | $75.00
Edited by Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2022.
282 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 29 x 23 cm. LC 2021-41042 In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9780253060334
Covering a range of media and a wide geographical spread, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean reveals how 19th-century artists in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspectives. — This collection has been developed with course use in mind. Each of the essays is written with broad historical and cultural background as preparation for a more closely-focused study of individual topics. Front and back matter will also include maps, a timeline, and a glossary of terms. — The collection will offer coverage of aesthetic and cultural development in an area that is well-researched in terms of political history but not so in terms of art history. It also offers a selection of excellent work for nineteenth-century art instructors who seek to incorporate more global material in their survey courses. — The collection adds to the list's goals in its constructive engagement with an understudied era in an important field of Middle Eastern Studies, in its inclusion of metatextual material to help students and emerging scholars engage fully with the period, and in its clear and mostly jargon-free language. It also incorporates nearly 150 detailed color images to help the reader more fully engage with the subject. — The audience for the work is instructors of Islamic art courses and courses on nineteenth-century art, globalization, and Middle Eastern Studies. The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content. Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean charts transformations in image-making, architecture, and craft production in the Islamic world from Fez to Istanbul. Contributors focus on the shifting methods of production, reproduction, circulation, and exchange artists faced as they worked in fields such as photography, weaving, design, metalwork, ceramics, and even transportation. Covering a range of media and a wide geographical spread, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean reveals how 19th-century artists in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspectives.
Subject Headings: Near Eastern and Middle Eastern Art (traditional) ; Non-Western Art -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --
W038514 | $75.00
Edited by Margaret S. Graves and Alex Dika Seggerman. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2022.
282 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 29 x 23 cm. LC 2021-41042 In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9780253060334
Covering a range of media and a wide geographical spread, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean reveals how 19th-century artists in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspectives. — This collection has been developed with course use in mind. Each of the essays is written with broad historical and cultural background as preparation for a more closely-focused study of individual topics. Front and back matter will also include maps, a timeline, and a glossary of terms. — The collection will offer coverage of aesthetic and cultural development in an area that is well-researched in terms of political history but not so in terms of art history. It also offers a selection of excellent work for nineteenth-century art instructors who seek to incorporate more global material in their survey courses. — The collection adds to the list's goals in its constructive engagement with an understudied era in an important field of Middle Eastern Studies, in its inclusion of metatextual material to help students and emerging scholars engage fully with the period, and in its clear and mostly jargon-free language. It also incorporates nearly 150 detailed color images to help the reader more fully engage with the subject. — The audience for the work is instructors of Islamic art courses and courses on nineteenth-century art, globalization, and Middle Eastern Studies. The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content. Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean charts transformations in image-making, architecture, and craft production in the Islamic world from Fez to Istanbul. Contributors focus on the shifting methods of production, reproduction, circulation, and exchange artists faced as they worked in fields such as photography, weaving, design, metalwork, ceramics, and even transportation. Covering a range of media and a wide geographical spread, Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean reveals how 19th-century artists in the Middle East and North Africa reckoned with new tools, materials, and tastes from local perspectives.
Subject Headings: Near Eastern and Middle Eastern Art (traditional) ; Non-Western Art -- Several Fine Arts Media (Western) --
