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001 2014930118
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008 140103s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a0500252068 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aN7429$b.W55 2014
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100 1 $aWilliams, Haydn,$eauthor.
245 10 $aTurquerie :$ban eighteenth-century European fantasy /$cHaydn Williams.
260 $aNew York :$bThames & Hudson,$c2014.
300 $a239 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color) ;$c31 cm
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-229) and index.
505 0 $aEurope and Constantinople after 1453 -- Connections in the 18th century -- Playing the Turk in Europe -- Reflections of the Ottoman world in European painting -- Tents and other structures -- Evoking the Ottoman world in European interiors -- Conjuring up the Ottoman world in European applied arts -- Continuity and change in the 19th century.
520 $aThis is the first book ... to identify the key elements of what in our own time has become a popular and collectable area of the fine art and decorative arts: turquerie. With the arrival of Ottoman embassies and their elaborate entourages at the courts of Europe in the early eighteenth century, a fascination with all things Turkish took hold among royalty and aristocracy that lasted until the French Revolution. Turbaned figures appeared in paintings, as ceramic figures, and on the stage; tented boudoirs became the rage; and crossed crescents, palm trees, and camels featured on wall panels, furniture, and enamel boxes. Here Haydn Williams, an expert on the decorative arts, shows how it was a theme that sparked varied responses in different places. Its most intense and long-lasting expression was in France, but its reach was broad-from a pavilion built by Catherine II in Russia to the Turkish tents erected along the Elbe to celebrate a royal marriage in Dresden in 1719; from an ivory statuette of a janissary created for King Augustus II of Poland to the costumes worn for a carnival celebration in Rome in 1748.--Provided by publisher
650 0 $aArt, European$y18th century$xThemes, motives.
650 0 $aTurquerie (Art)
651 0 $aEurope$xCivilization$xTurkish influences.