The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450-1750: Visual Imagery before Orientalism

The first book in English to approach the topic in this way, this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the early modern Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. Individual essays examine specific images or groups of images, problematizing the 'truths' they present and analyzing the contexts that shape the presentation of Ottoman or Islamic subject matter in European art.

Author: James G. Harper
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/28/2011
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780754663300

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 10/01/2011 pg. 170

About the Author
James G. Harper (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art at the University of Oregon and a fellow of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.