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What is Exhibition

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in Media and Beyond
It is the event of public exhibit of artifacts in a certain order in institutions such as a museum or an art gallery.
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Orientalist Museum Exhibitions in UK as a New Media at the Turn of the 21st Century: Re-Orientalism of Orientalism
Meltem Yaşdağ (The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7180-4.ch017
Abstract
In this chapter, the author examined the orientalist themed museum exhibitions totally held in Britain after 2000 to understand the real intention behind their thematic artifact selection and their effect on people as becoming media tool. These were “Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600” in 2005, “The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting” in 2008, and recent “Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art” in 2019, respectively. The author analyzed the criticisms in newspapers and magazines as well as curators' interviews and catalogs for the museum exhibitions organized in United Kingdom. In this way, the author also discussed the effects of the exhibition created with the media.
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