Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890

Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47070-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 193 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1114 g

The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London, and beyond, uncovers the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in the trade of architectural salvage and historic handicraft, and traces impacts on private interiors, through creative reuse and Revival design, in Egypt, Europe and America. By devoting attention to both local and global engagements with Middle Eastern tangible heritage, the present volume invites to look anew at Orientalism in art and interior design, the canon of Islamic architecture and the translocation of historic works of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Volait, Mercedes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Connecting Historiographies, Challenging Assumptions

1 Things, People and Places

2 Structure of the Book

3 A Variety of Sources

4 Data Re-Identification

5 Revising the Narrative

1 Early Shows and Sales of Islamic Antiques in Paris

1 Orientalia at the Musée rétrospectif in 1865

2 Egyptian Architectural Salvage at the Exposition universelle of 1867

3 The Sale and Display of an Egyptian Collection in 1869

4 Shifting Trajectories and Contexts

2 Expanding Trades in Late Ottoman Cairo and Damascus

1 Distinctive Profiles and Iconic Artefacts

2 The kursi as Global Commodity

3 Market Adjustments

3 Conflicted Commodification in Cairo

1 Urban and Domestic Reform

2 Inducement and Resistance to Commodification

3 Contrasting Attitudes

4 Fashioning Immersive Displays in Egypt and Beyond

1 Atmospheric Interiors for Western Connoisseurs

2 The Living Culture of Reuse in Egypt

3 The Social Outreach of Revivalism

4 Islamic Art as Intrinsically Architectural

5 Guise and Disguise Before and During the Tanzimat

1 Codification and the Intricacies of Cross-Cultural Dressing in Pre-Tanzimat Times

2 Dressing Native in Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Back Home

3 Costume for History and Leisure in Painting and Photography

4 A Gendered Collecting Culture

Epilogue: Diverging Routes

1 Bygone Ways of Inhabiting the Past and the World

2 Estrangements

3 Endurances

References

Primary Sources

Websites

Printed Sources

Bibliography

Indices

Index of Personal Names

Index of Place Names

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mercedes Volait, Ph.D. (1993), Aix-Marseille University, is Research Professor at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She has numerous publications on art, architecture and photography in Modern Egypt, as well as Islamic art collecting in Europe.