Frederick N Bohrer
Biographic Data
| ID | 117730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick N Bohrer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick N |
| FAMILY NAME | Bohrer |
| SIGNATURE | BOHRER F N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hood College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fixing the Acropolis: William J. Stillman and the Restoration of Athenian Antiquity
William J. Stillman’s 1870 photographic album The Acropolis of Athens details, with extraordinary sensitivity, the classical monuments of the Athenian Acropolis. But the album itself is part of a larger transnational history of the production, representation, and circulation of Greek antiquity. It is also a central artefact of Stillman’s own life and affiliations. Tracing these two interlocking histories is to place the album’s imagery, narrative…
Presents of the Past
Somehow, the war in Iraq, and the atmosphere after September 11, seems to have offered museums a teachable moment, or perhaps a new way to declare their relevance, or at least the opportunity to elevate some of their lesser-viewed objects. It has activated two broad areas in museum collections. First, there have been exhibits devoted to the arts of Islam.1 Though promoted as fostering a multi-cultural worldview, viewing Islam, and the Middle East…
The Times and Spaces of History: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum
The student of exoticism must necessarily be a connoisseur of discontinuity. That is, he or she must be concerned with the varieties of an inchoate elsewhere, an array whose only real common denominator is the lack of a common denominator. Whether it is termed the exotic or the Other or the primitive, it can hardly be a purely neutral or objective statement to define something merely as being not like us, rather than describing what it is like. T…
Assyrian Revival
Inventing Assyria: Exoticism and Reception in Nineteenth-Century England and France
Using aspects of postcolonial and reception theory, this article explores how mid-nineteenth-century France and England responded to the sudden rediscovery of ancient Assyrian artifacts. The conception of Assyria, exemplified in the paintings of John Martin and Eugene Delacroix, before the discoveries was variously transformed and disrupted in the different institutional, critical, social, and political situations of France and England during and…
Eastern medi(t)ations: Exoticism and the mobility of difference
1996). Eastern medi(t)ations: Exoticism and the mobility of difference. History and Anthropology: Vol. 9, No. 2-3, pp. 293-307
Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting
Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting
Eastern medi(t)ations: Exoticism and the mobility of difference
1996). Eastern medi(t)ations: Exoticism and the mobility of difference. History and Anthropology: Vol. 9, No. 2-3, pp. 293-307
Women as Portrayed in Orientalist Painting
Eastern medi(t)ations: Exoticism and the mobility of difference
1996). Eastern medi(t)ations: Exoticism and the mobility of difference. History and Anthropology: Vol. 9, No. 2-3, pp. 293-307
Inventing Assyria: Exoticism and Reception in Nineteenth-Century England and France
Using aspects of postcolonial and reception theory, this article explores how mid-nineteenth-century France and England responded to the sudden rediscovery of ancient Assyrian artifacts. The conception of Assyria, exemplified in the paintings of John Martin and Eugene Delacroix, before the discoveries was variously transformed and disrupted in the different institutional, critical, social, and political situations of France and England during and…
Assyrian Revival
The Times and Spaces of History: Representation, Assyria, and the British Museum
The student of exoticism must necessarily be a connoisseur of discontinuity. That is, he or she must be concerned with the varieties of an inchoate elsewhere, an array whose only real common denominator is the lack of a common denominator. Whether it is termed the exotic or the Other or the primitive, it can hardly be a purely neutral or objective statement to define something merely as being not like us, rather than describing what it is like. T…
Presents of the Past
Somehow, the war in Iraq, and the atmosphere after September 11, seems to have offered museums a teachable moment, or perhaps a new way to declare their relevance, or at least the opportunity to elevate some of their lesser-viewed objects. It has activated two broad areas in museum collections. First, there have been exhibits devoted to the arts of Islam.1 Though promoted as fostering a multi-cultural worldview, viewing Islam, and the Middle East…
Fixing the Acropolis: William J. Stillman and the Restoration of Athenian Antiquity
William J. Stillman’s 1870 photographic album The Acropolis of Athens details, with extraordinary sensitivity, the classical monuments of the Athenian Acropolis. But the album itself is part of a larger transnational history of the production, representation, and circulation of Greek antiquity. It is also a central artefact of Stillman’s own life and affiliations. Tracing these two interlocking histories is to place the album’s imagery, narrative…
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (3 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Assyria (2 works) · Exoticism (2 works) · Geography (2 works)