Orientalist Museum Exhibitions in UK as a New Media at the Turn of the 21st Century-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Orientalist Museum Exhibitions in UK as a New Media at the Turn of the 21st Century

Published:2021 Issue: Volume: Page:268-282
ISSN:2475-6814
Container-title:Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts
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Author:

Yaşdağ Meltem¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey

Abstract

In this chapter, the author examined the orientalist themed museum exhibitions totally held in Britain after 2000 to understand the real intention behind their thematic artifact selection and their effect on people as becoming media tool. These were “Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600” in 2005, “The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting” in 2008, and recent “Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art” in 2019, respectively. The author analyzed the criticisms in newspapers and magazines as well as curators' interviews and catalogs for the museum exhibitions organized in United Kingdom. In this way, the author also discussed the effects of the exhibition created with the media.

Publisher

IGI Global

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