{"product_id":"ottoman-baroque-by-unver-rustem-9780691181875","title":"Ottoman Baroque","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative. This view reflects broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures. In \u003cem\u003eOttoman Baroque\u003c\/em\u003e – the first English-language book on the topic – Ünver Rüstem provides a compelling reassessment of this building style. He shows how, between 1740 and 1800, the Ottomans consciously co-opted European forms to craft a new, politically charged, and globally resonant image for their empire's capital.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRüstem reclaims the label \"Ottoman Baroque\" as a productive framework for exploring the connectedness of Istanbul's eighteenth-century buildings to other traditions of the period. Using a wealth of primary sources, he demonstrates that this architecture was, in its own day, lauded by Ottomans and foreigners alike for its fresh, cosmopolitan effect. Purposefully and creatively assimilated, the style's cross-cultural borrowings were combined with Byzantine references that asserted the Ottomans' entitlement to the Classical artistic heritage of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuch aesthetic rebranding was part of a larger endeavour to reaffirm the empire's power at a time of intensified East-West contact, taking its boldest shape in a series of imperial mosques built across the city as landmarks of a state-sponsored idiom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCopiously illustrated and drawing on previously unpublished documents, \u003cem\u003eOttoman Baroque\u003c\/em\u003e breaks new ground in our understanding of Islamic visual culture in the modern era and offers a persuasive counterpoint to Eurocentric accounts of global art history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597470384364,"sku":"9780691181875","price":239.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6d1038db7f7aec2e66286dfd813f8de9.jpg?v=1777958910","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/ottoman-baroque-by-unver-rustem-9780691181875","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}