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BOOKS, PRINTS, AND TRAVEL: READING IN THE GAPS OF THE ORIENTALIST ARCHIVE
Author(s) -
FRASER ELISABETH A.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
art history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8365
pISSN - 0141-6790
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8365.2008.00610.x
Subject(s) - thriving , reading (process) , orientalism , representation (politics) , publishing , art history , art , visual arts , history , literature , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , political science , social science , law , politics
From about 1780 a thriving publishing industry for travel accounts developed in France, but its rich visual component has not been closely analysed. Taking Auguste de Forbin's Voyage dans le Levant and Marie‐Gabriel de Choiseul‐Gouffier's Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce as paradigmatic examples, I reconsider illustrated travel books in light of new theories of reading generated by historians of the book. The multifarious nature of these books – juggling word and image, and coordinating the work of a large number of writers, researchers, artists and print‐makers – provides a radically alternative model for interpreting travel representation in the age of expansion.