The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450-1750
Author: James G. Harper
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780754663300
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.