ARHA 531 Late Ottoman and Early Republican Art Fall 2013

ARHA 531 Late Ottoman and Early Republican Art
Fall 2013 Monday 12.30-15.15 (CAS B 39)
Instructor: Professor Günsel Renda
Office hours: Monday 11.00-12.00
Course content:
Ottoman modernism and the historical and cultural transformation in the 18th and 19th
centuries will be discussed in view of the artistic developments. How Western modality
penetrated into the cultural sphere and how borrowings led to the birth of new techniques,
forms and styles in the art and architecure of the 18th and 19th centuries leading to the
early Republican Period will be the main theme in the course including a critical
discourse of the concepts of ‘modernism’ and ‘westernization’ and ‘national identity’.
Course Requirements: The course will be organized as a seminar, the first hour will be the
introduction to the topic to be discussed, the second hour will be presentations of the readings
assigned. The readings will be assigned in each class.
September 16. Introduction
September 23 Introduction
September 30
Discussion of the balance of power in 18th century Europe and new relations between
Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Diplomatic relations with France and new developments
in technology.
October 7
Ottoman Empire in the 18th century-interest in western technology and culture
Westernisms in Ottoman architecture and decoration in the 18th century
October 14
Increasing westernization in the second half of the 18th century under reformist sultans
leading to an institutionalized modernism in the Empire. New trends in art and
architecture. New developments in technique and content in painting
October 21
Institutionalized modernization in the Empire in the 19th century
Reorganization of the Empire after Tanzimat, architecture and arts afterTanzimat
November 4
Imperial commissions from European artists and the introduction of new techniques and
trends in painting.
November 11
Orientalism in 19th century Europe and a new vision of the Ottoman world.
The concepts of orientalism and occidentalism.
November 18
Institutionalization of art education in civil and military schools, art exhibitions, fairs
November 25
19th century European movements in Ottoman art and architecture, translation of western
art, interactions between past and present
December 2
Cultural and artistic media, movements in art in the first half of the 20th century and their
reflections in the cultural policies of the Republican period,
December 9
Republican period- extent of westernization and the national idiom in arts. State
commissions, exhibitions, inland and abroad, homeland trips
December 16
Review and discussions of concepts of westernization and modernization; orientalism and
occidentalism in the Ottoman and Republican periods.
December 23
Presentation of papers and discussions
Two field trips will be organized and final oral discussions will be scheduled during the
week of finals.
Selected sources: (Further reading and chapters from the following sources will be assigned)
Arel, A.,Onsekizinci Yüzyıl Osmanlı Mimarisinde Batılılaşma Süreci, Istanbul, 1975.
Bagcı, S,Çağman, F.,Tanındı, Z.,Renda, G.,Tanındı, Z., Ottoman Painting, İstanbul,2006
Bozdoğan, S.,Modernism and National Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early
Republic, ‘ Muqarnas, 24, 2007, 199-221.
Kortepeter, M., Renda, G. (ed.), Transformation of Culture. The Atatürk Legacy, Princeton, 1986,
131-144, 229-248, 267-285.
Cezar, M., Sanatta Batıya Açılış ve Osman Hamdi, 2nd ed. İstanbul 1995.
Çelik, Z., The Remaking of Istanbul, Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century,
University of California Press,1986,1-48
Çelik, Z., Empire, Architeture and the City, Seattle-London, 2008.
Hamadeh, Shirin,’Ottoman Expression of Early Modernity and the Inevitable Question of
Westernization’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 63, (2004) 32-51
Hitzel, F., Couleurs de la Corné d’Or. Peintres voyageurs à la Sublime Porte, Paris, 2002.
Germaner, S., İnankur, Z., Constantinople and the Orientalists, İstanbul, 2002
İnalcık, H:, Renda. G. (ed.) Ottoman Civilization II, İstanbul, 2002,933-967.
Göçek, F.M., East Encounters West. France and the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century,
New York-Oxford, 1987
Karpat,K., Osmanlı Modernleşmesi, Ankara, 2002.
Kreiser,K., ‘Public Monuments in Turkey and Egypt, 1840-1916’, Muqarnas,14, 1997,
Kuban, D., İstanbul An Urban History, İstanbul, 1996, chapters 33-36
Kuran, A., ‘Eighteenth Century Ottoman Architecture’, Studies in Eighteenth Century Islamic
History, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1977
Lewis, B., The Muslim Discovery of Europe, New York, 1982,103-117.
Mansell,P., The City of World’s Desire, 1453-1924, London, 1995.
Renda, G., Batılılaşma döneminde Türk Resim Sanatı,1700-1850, Ankara, 1977.
Shaw.S. and Shaw, E., History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, vol.II, Cambridge
Univ. Press 1997.
The Sultans Portrait. Picturing the House of Ottoman, (Necipoğlu, G.,Raby.J., Majer.
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2000,
Tuğlacı P., Osmanlı Mimarlığında Balyan Ailesinin Rolü, İstanbul, 1993.
Vernoit, S., Occidentalism. Islamic Art in the 19th Century, The Nasser
Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. XXIII, Nour Foundation, Oxford
University Press, 1997.