A l'orientale: Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

The present volume offers a collection of essays that examines the mechanisms and strategies of collecting, displaying and appropriating Islamic art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many studies in this book concentrate on lesser known collections of Islamic art, situated in Central and Eastern Europe that until now have received little attention from scholars. Special attention is given to the figure of the Swiss collector Henri Moser Charlottenfels, whose important, still largely unstudied collection of Islamic art is now preserved in the Bernisches Historisches Museum, Switzerland. Contributors to the volume include young researchers and established scholars from Western and Eastern Europe and beyond: Roger Nicholas Balsiger, Moya Carey, Valentina Colonna, Francine Giese, Helene Guerin, Barbara Karl, Katrin Kaufmann, Sarah Keller, Agnieszka Kluczewska Wojcik, Inessa Kouteinikova, Axel Langer, Maria Medvedeva, Agnes Sebestyen, Alban von Stockhausen, Ariane Varela Braga, Mercedes Volait. Les contributions de l'ouvrage examinent le mecanisme et les strategies relatifs a la collection, la presentation et l'appropriation des arts de l'Islam au XIXe siecle et debut du XXe siecle. Elles mettent l'accent sur des collections situees en Europe centrale et orientale, lesquelles ont ete peu etudiees jusqu'a present. Une attention particuliere est dediee a la figure du collectionneur Suisse Henri Moser Charlottenfels, dont les objets se trouvent aujourd'hui au Bernisches Historisches Museum (Suisse) et qui ont ete de meme peu etudies. Les textes emanent de jeunes chercheurs comme de chercheurs confirmes, bases en Europe occidentale et orientale, et au-dela.