Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs by Zeynep Celik
Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs

Zeynep Celik

Displaying the Orient: Architecture of Islam at Nineteenth-Century World's Fairs

Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies

Zeynep Celik

245 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction design history informative reflective medium-paced

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Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place. Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were impo...

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