James G. Harper

Fogg Art Museum

Through history artists have often worked on both sides of a piece of paper. But they rarely had the option to decide which side to display. With the 20th century, however, this changed. An interesti ng Fogg Art Museum show from which this catalogue is derived was the first to display the front and back of great works. Described are paper

The Flip Side of Master Drawings

Verso

The first book in English to approach the topic in this way, this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the early modern Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. Individual essays examine specific images or groups of images, problematizing the 'truths' they present and analyzing the contexts that shape the presentation of Ottoman or Islamic subject matter in European art.

James G. Harper

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