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The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts: Issue 28, Turkey Theme Issue

The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts: Issue 28, Turkey Theme Issue

Bozdoğan, Sibel
Mogul, Jonathan

Paperback

Art HistoryBaltic HistoryEuropean Art

ISBN10: 1930776209
ISBN13: 9781930776203
Publisher: Wolfsonian-Florida International University
Published: Jul 31 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This latest volume of the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts explores the role of design and decorative arts in the making of modern Turkey, from the late Ottoman Empire to the middle of the twentieth century.

As in many countries outside of western Europe and North America, Turkey's encounter with modernity has largely been the result of an official modernization project from above. In the absence of the material and social conditions--industrialization, capitalist production, urbanization, and the existence of an autonomous bourgeoisie--that characterized the Western world, elites seeking to modernize Turkey had a strong sense of delayed development and an urgent desire to catch up with the West. This sense of urgency accounts for their reliance on the power of representation, especially visual and material culture, to express modern ideas, institutional reform, national identity, and social progress. The resulting experiments touched virtually every creative field, from architecture, painting, and sculpture to interiors, fashion, textiles, industrial design, photography, and graphic design.

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