Modern art and the idea of the Mediterranean / edited by Vojtěch Jirat-Wasiutyʹnski with the assistance of Anne Dymond.

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9781442684584
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704.9/4990909822

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Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 Modern Art and the New Mediterranean Space""; ""2 Allegories of Modernity: Space, Time, and the Mediterranean""; ""3 Abstracting Space: Remaking the Landscape of Colonial Algeria in Second-Empire France""; ""4 The Untimely Classicism of Hans von MarÃ©es""; ""5 A Politicized Pastoral: Signac and the Cultural Geography of Mediterranean France""; ""6 Inventing Mediterranean Harmony in Matisseâ€?s Paper Cut-Outs""; ""7 Classicism and Resistance in Late-Nineteenth-Century European Art: The Case of Greece""

""8 The Faces of Modigliani: Identity Politics under Fascism""""9 The Representation of Islamic Art in Israeli Museums: The Politics of Collecting""; ""10 Returning the Gaze: Orientalism, Gender, and Yasmina Bouzianeâ€?s Photographic Self-Portraits""; ""Contributors""; ""Illustrations""

Summary: The Mediterranean is an invented cultural space, on the frontier between North and South, West and East. Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean examines the representation of this region in the visual arts since the late eighteenth century, placing the ?idea of the Mediterranean? ? a cultural construct rather than a physical reality ? at the centre of our understanding of modern visual culture. This collection of essays features an international group of scholars who examine competing visions of the Mediterranean in terms of modernity and cultural identity, questioning and illuminating both European and non-European representations. An introductory essay frames the analysis in terms of a new spatial paradigm of the Mediterranean as a geographic, historical, and cultural region that emerged in the late eighteenth century, as France and Britain colonized the surrounding territories. Essays are grouped around three vital themes: visualization of the space of the new Mediterranean; varied uses of the classical paradigm; and issues of identity and resistance in an age of modernity and colonialism. Drawing on recent geographical, historical, cultural and anthropological studies, contributors address the visual representation of identity in both the European and the ?Oriental,? the colonial and post-colonial Mediterranean.

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The Mediterranean is an invented cultural space, on the frontier between North and South, West and East. Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean examines the representation of this region in the visual arts since the late eighteenth century, placing the ?idea of the Mediterranean? ? a cultural construct rather than a physical reality ? at the centre of our understanding of modern visual culture. This collection of essays features an international group of scholars who examine competing visions of the Mediterranean in terms of modernity and cultural identity, questioning and illuminating both European and non-European representations. An introductory essay frames the analysis in terms of a new spatial paradigm of the Mediterranean as a geographic, historical, and cultural region that emerged in the late eighteenth century, as France and Britain colonized the surrounding territories. Essays are grouped around three vital themes: visualization of the space of the new Mediterranean; varied uses of the classical paradigm; and issues of identity and resistance in an age of modernity and colonialism. Drawing on recent geographical, historical, cultural and anthropological studies, contributors address the visual representation of identity in both the European and the ?Oriental,? the colonial and post-colonial Mediterranean.

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