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Published by Suna and Inan Kiraç Foundation, Istanbul, 2005
ISBN 10: 9759123029ISBN 13: 9789759123024
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (33 x 24 cm). In English. Color ills. 155 p. Throughout the ages, the Orient has attracted the interest of the West. European intellectual and artists have been mesmerized since the earliest times by this presumably mysterious and relatively closed world. As a natural consequence, during various periods many artists, either by travelling themselves or by travelling in their imaginations, sought to discover the essence of the Orient, and depicted or expressed in their works either the real Orient or their own visions of it. The movement known as Orientalism in European art, which appeared in conjunction with the Romanticist movement of the 19th century, focused on the East, primarily in the lands of the Ottoman Empire. Even long before the rise of Orientalism in European art, many European artists, fascinated by their first glimpses of the mysterious East and by the Turquerie fashion which was the result of the new relations with the Ottoman world. For nearly two hundred years, starting from the 18th century, numbers of painters, some of whom became known as the Bosphorus Painters, worked intensively in the lands of the Empire and depicted the Ottoman world ib its various aspects, consequently engraving those images in mankind's visual memory. The exhibition Portraits from the Empire sheds light on a special part of this opulent world. Almost sixty paintings selected from the Suna and Inan Kiraç and Sevgi and Erdogan Gönül collections bring us face to face with the peoples of the Ottoman world, their portraits and portrayals, sometimes very familiar and sometimes remote, even nearly foreign, in their physiognomies. These paintings, most of them created before the eye of the camera replaced the human eye, in the times when observing, studying, interpreting and depicting the world was the priority of painters, present the lost faces of an era long past with amazing reality and vividness.
Published by Pera Museum, Istanbul, 2006
ISBN 10: 9759123029ISBN 13: 9789759123024
Seller: Colin Martin Books, Near Hull, EY, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Qto., 155 pages, colour illustrated. A Fine copy.
Published by Istanbul: Suna ve Inan Kirac Vakfi Pera Muzesi, 2005., 2005
ISBN 10: 9759123029ISBN 13: 9789759123024
Seller: BOSPHORUS BOOKS, Istanbul, Turkey
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Soft cover. Condition: New. RIFAT, SAMIH - BARIS KIBRIS - BEGUM AKKOYUNLU (Edited by) Portraits from the Empire. The Ottoman world and the Ottomans from the 18th to 20th century with selected works of art from the Suna and Inan kirac foundatiom collection. [Exhibition catalogue]. Istanbul: Suna ve Inan Kirac Vakfi Pera Muzesi, 2005. 4to., 154 p., color ills. Paperback. New ISBN: 9789759123024 CATALOG: Painting & Sculpture KEYWORDS: Painting History of art Ottoman culture Orientalism The exhibition Portraits from the Empire sheds light on a special part of this opulent world. Sixty paintings selected from the Suna and Inan Kirac and Sevgi and Erdogan Gonul collections brings us face to face with the peoples of the Ottoman world, their portraits and portrayals, sometimes very familiar and sometimes remote, even nearly foreign in their phisiognomies. These paintings, most of them created before the eye of the camera replaced the human eye, in the times when observing, studying, interpreting and depicting the world was the priority of painters, present the lost faces of an era long past with amazing reality and vividness.