Antiquities Collections in the Imperial Museum
During the reign of Abdülhamid II, objects that had been gaining value as markers of a common identity began to fall into a system of categories and a complex of institutions of display characteristic of nineteenth-century Europe. In contrast to Europe, which was eagerly collecting trophies from rec...
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| Vydáno v: | Possessors and Possessed s. 149 |
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| Médium: | Kapitola |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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University of California Press
13.05.2003
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| ISBN: | 0520233352, 9780520233355 |
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| Shrnutí: | During the reign of Abdülhamid II, objects that had been gaining value as markers of a common identity began to fall into a system of categories and a complex of institutions of display characteristic of nineteenth-century Europe. In contrast to Europe, which was eagerly collecting trophies from recent colonial conquests, the Ottoman Empire was trying to hold on to its territories by collecting representative trophies and uniting them in the hierarchical, orderly world of its museums.
In Europe the museum spaces that developed to display the fruits of the labors of collection reflected epistemologies and ideologies central to the ethos |
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| ISBN: | 0520233352 9780520233355 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/california/9780520233355.003.0007 |