Artists as collectors of Islamic Art, 1850-1910

该项目的目的是通过对19世纪世纪奥斯曼和东方主义艺术家作为收藏家的首次跨文化比较研究，对收集和解释近东艺术的模式产生新的理解。通过绘制穿越奥斯曼帝国，俄罗斯，波兰，法国和英国文化的艺术家，经销商和收藏家的跨文化网络，这项研究揭示了被狭隘地集中在单一国家历史的东方主义研究所闭塞的国际交流。该项目揭示了伊斯兰世界的宝藏在19世纪从其先前的当地宗教和文化功能转变为西方的异国情调和东方的文化遗产的无数方式。

The aim of this project is to generate a new understanding of patterns of collecting and interpreting the arts of the near east through the first cross-cultural comparative study of Ottoman and Orientalist artists as collectors in the 19th century. By mapping transcultural networks of artists, dealers and collectors traversing Ottoman, Russian, Polish, French and British cultures, this study reveals international exchanges that have been occluded by studies of Orientalism narrowly focused around single national histories. This project reveals the myriad ways treasures from the Islamic world were being transformed in the 19th century from their prior local religious and cultural functions into exoticism in the West and cultural patrimony in the East.