Ottoman Baroque

The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

Ünver Rüstem

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Princeton University Press
11 June 2019

Art & design styles: Baroque; Decorative arts; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial; History of architecture

"A new approach to late Ottoman visual culture and its place in the world

With its idiosyncratic yet unmistakable adaptation of European Baroque models, the eighteenth-century architecture of Istanbul has frequently been dismissed by modern observers as inauthentic and derivative, a view reflecting broader unease with notions of Western influence on Islamic cultures. In Ottoman Baroque-the first English-language book on the topic-UEnver Rustem provides a compelling reassessment of this building style and shows how between 1740 and 1800 the Ottomans consciously coopted European forms to craft a new, politically charged, and globally resonant image for their empire's capital.

Rustem reclaims the label ""Ottoman Baroque"" as a productive framework for exploring the connectedness of Istanbul's eighteenth-century buildings to other traditions of the period. Using a wealth of primary sources, he demonstrates that this architecture was in its own day lauded by Ottomans and foreigners alike for its fresh, cosmopolitan effect. Purposefully and creatively assimilated, the style's cross-cultural borrowings were combined with Byzantine references that asserted the Ottomans' entitlement to the Classical artistic heritage of Europe. Such aesthetic rebranding was part of a larger endeavor to reaffirm the empire's power at a time of intensified East-West contact, taking its boldest shape in a series of imperial mosques built across the city as landmarks of a state-sponsored idiom.

Copiously illustrated and drawing on previously unpublished documents, Ottoman Baroque breaks new ground in our understanding of Islamic visual culture in the modern era and offers a persuasive counterpoint to Eurocentric accounts of global art history."

By: Ünver Rüstem
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 203mm,
ISBN: 9780691181875
ISBN 10: 069118187X
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 11 June 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ünver Rüstem is assistant professor of Islamic art and architecture at Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews for Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul

Winner of a 2018 SAH/Mellon Author Award, Society of Architectural Historians One of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019 Winner of the Alice David Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians This book belongs to a new type of discourse on Ottoman architecture in which received accounts of events are challenged and the buildings are seen as important historical documents in their own right, allowing us to gain a better understanding of the period as a whole. ---Tim Stanley, Cornucopia UEnver Rustem's groundbreaking study of this most unexpected of European Baroques reveals the vigour and inventiveness of a style usually dismissed as decadent and superficial. . . . Ottoman patrons may have drawn upon Western European models, but when they were done with them, there was nothing Western left. ---Gauvin Alexander Bailey, The Art Newspaper Fascinating . . . . Ottoman Baroque, as Rustem shows, is therefore about more than just the adoption of stylistic forms perceived as novel or attractive . . . . Rustem's lucid study offers a new perspective on the Baroque as an international phenomenon ---Bernhard Schulz, Art Newspaper