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ARTH 501 • Halpern-Rogath Curatorial Seminar:
Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands
Instructor: Holod/Ousterhout • R 3-6
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The seminar will prepare an exhibit to appear at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the fall of 2010 and at the Pera Museum in Istanbul during the spring of 2011. Utilizing paintings, drawings, photographs, letters, excavation notebooks, and artifacts (almost all from the storerooms and archives of the Penn Museum), the exhibit will construct a visual narrative of three intersecting lives: Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910), a noted Orientalist painter, archaeologist, and the Director of the Ottoman Imperial Museum; Hermann Hilprecht (1859-1925), distinguished (and ultimately disgraced) Assyriologist from Penn, and John Henry Haynes (1849-1910), pioneering archaeological photographer and traveler, whose work remains all but unknown. We will consider issues of Orientalism and Occidentalism in the artistic encounters of East and West in the late 19th century, the intersections of painting and photography, early travel photography, the beginnings of American archaeology (both Biblical and Classical), and museum-building. |
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