Painstakingly researched from many sources, this is the first book to look at the artistic phenomenon known as turquerie. At the end of the 17th century, the long-standing fear of the Turk in Europe was gradually replaced by fascination. Travellers' accounts of the Ottoman lands, translations of works such as One Thousand and One Nights, and the magnificent spectacle of Ottoman ambassadors and their retinues were among the catalysts that inspired the creation of a European fantasy of this world. In this new book, Haydn ...
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Painstakingly researched from many sources, this is the first book to look at the artistic phenomenon known as turquerie. At the end of the 17th century, the long-standing fear of the Turk in Europe was gradually replaced by fascination. Travellers' accounts of the Ottoman lands, translations of works such as One Thousand and One Nights, and the magnificent spectacle of Ottoman ambassadors and their retinues were among the catalysts that inspired the creation of a European fantasy of this world. In this new book, Haydn Williams shows how turquerie manifested itself in the arts across Europe. Its most intense and long-lasting expression was in France, but its reach was broad: from a mosque folly in Kew Gardens to an ivory statuette of a janissary created in Dresden for King Augustus II of Poland and the costumes worn for a carnival celebration in Rome in 1748. Focusing on categories including painting, architecture, interiors and the theatre, Turquerie provides an engaging account of this whimsical European fantasy.
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As New in As New jacket. Book. Folio-over 12-15" tall. Large format hardcover, folio size volume bound in dark red boards and lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's non price-clipped pictorial dust-jacket. 241 pages. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Profusely illustrated with 291 images, chiefly in color. First edition. Like Orientalism which focused on the far East, of roughly the same period, Turquerie was a fascination with Turkish fashion in Western Europe which expressed itself in all modes of art, decoration and style. The present work explores the subject "thematically within a broadly chronological framework" from just after the fall of Constantinople to the "...great flourishing of turquerie in the 18th century, to the 19th century." A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. As new in an as new dust-jacket. A large heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.
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New. Looks at the artistic phenomenon known as turquerie. This book shows how turquerie manifested itself in the arts across Europe. Num Pages: 240 pages, 291 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVT; ACQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 300 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1734. 2014. 1st Edition. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
