The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe's distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East. As new advances enhanced the versatil…
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The Middle East played a critical role in the development of photography as a new technology and an art form. Likewise, photography was instrumental in cultivating and maintaining Europe's distinctively Orientalist vision of the Middle East. As new advances enhanced the versatil…
The Orientalism debate, inspired by the work of Edward Said, has been a major source of cross-disciplinary controversy in recent years. John Mackenzie offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of the vast literature on Orientalism, bringing to the subject some highly original histori…
La storiografia veneziana dell'età moderna e poi quella europea dell'Ottocento e Novecento hanno rappresentato per lo più il rapporto secolare tra Venezia e i turchi nel segno del conflitto di "civiltà" e di "fede", oltreché di interessi economico-politico-territoriali. La realt…
La storiografia veneziana dell'età moderna e poi quella europea dell'Ottocento e Novecento hanno rappresentato per lo più il rapporto secolare tra Venezia e i turchi nel segno del conflitto di "civiltà" e di "fede", oltreché di interessi economico-politico-territoriali. La realt…
This book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the missionaries' construction of Hinduism grew out of their own …
This important book explores the emergence and subsequent refinement of the idea of Hinduism as it developed among British Protestant missionaries in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author demonstrates how the missionaries' construction of Hinduism grew out of …
This study aims to clarify Venetian Quattrocento Orientalism, which affected Durer and thus Northern Europe, and to define the sources and practitioners of its Oriental motifs. At the end of the fifteenth century a large number of paintings were produced in Venice that depict ex…