Networked Objects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8965162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Roberts (0009-0008-1833-7441, The University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 570-573 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743813000500 |
| OpenAlex | W4248334472 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Over the last decade an approach to 19th-century visual culture that focuses on cross-cultural contact and exchange has begun to supplement an earlier model of Orientalist critique focused primarily on the iconographic analysis of European Orientalist tropes and stereotypes. In this essay I engage with these discussions by analyzing what I will call networked objects. Tracking the mobility of art works and artifacts across cultural boundaries and their differing signification in varying sites of reception impels a nuanced understanding of how visual culture has been implicated in these networks of power. Influenced by anthropological debates, my approach focuses on the circulation of images and objects across cultures and within the region, exploring their function at divergent sites. Social networks of artists and patrons facilitated the transplantation of ideas and images, but the meanings of networked objects morphed independently of authorship according to their displacement to new geographic locations. Networked objects were also entangled within patterns of misinterpretation, blockage, and rupture as visual forms were created, reshaped, or productively misinterpreted in the environments into which they were transplanted, thus provoking challenges from the peripheries and divergent forms of indigenous agency
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Cultural artifact · Epistemology · Function (biology · Indigenous · Literature · Media studies · Orientalism · Perspective (graphical · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Visual culture · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |