Edges of Empire : Orientalism and Visual Culture

26/07/2006

The Power Institute Foundation for Art & Visual Culture, University of Sydney
Invites you to the launch of :

Edges of Empire : Orientalism and Visual Culture

Edited by Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones & Mary Roberts (Richmond the American University in London) To be launched by Professor Timothy Barringer (Yale University)

6.00pm Tuesday, 8 August, 2006
Schaeffer Fine Arts Library
Level 2, RC Mills Building
Fisher Road, Main Campus, University of Sydney

Contributors: Zeynep Çelik, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Reina Lewis, Frederick N. Bohrer, Alastair Wright, Sally MacDonald, Roger Benjamin.

Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism. It covers indigenous art and agency, contemporary practices of collection and display, and a survey of key Orientalist tropes. It contains original essays on new perspectives for scholars and students of art history, architecture, museum studies and cultural and postcolonial studies. It highlights contested identities and new definitions of self through topics such as 19th century monuments to Empire, cultural cross-dressing, performance and display at the international exhibitions, and contemporary museological practice.

Link to this page: http://www.richmond.ac.uk/n/93.aspx