Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film
by Adam Geczy
Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and exchange between cultures. While the familiar orientalisms persist, transorientalism is a term that covers notions like the adoption of a hat from a different country for Turkish nationalist dress, the fact that an Italian could be one of the most influential directors in recent Chinese cinema, that Muslim women artists explore Islamic womanhood in non-Islamic countries, that artists can embrace both indigenous and non-indigenous identity at the same time. This is more than nostalgia or bland nationalism. It is a reflection of the effect that communication and representation in recent decades have brought to the way in which national identity is crafted and constructed-yet this does not make it any less authentic. The diversity of race and culture, the manner in which they are expressed and transacted, are most evident in art, fashion, and film. This much-needed book offers a refreshing, informed, and incisive account of a paradigm shift in the ways in which identity and otherness is moulded, perceived, and portrayed.
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Author Biography
Adam Geczy is an artist and writer, and teaches at Sydney College of the Arts, the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, the most recent being The Artificial Body in Fashion and Art (Bloomsbury, 2017) and (with Vicki Karaminas) Critical Fashion Practice (Bloomsbury, 2017).
Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Histories of Cultural Fabrication2. Occidentalizing the Orient: Modern Turkey3. The Global Turkish Artist 4. Art and the Islamic Female Diaspora5. "China", or Contemporary Chinoiserie6. Japanese Recreations: Between Kawakubo and Cosplay7. Indian Interdependence8. From Primitive to Provocative: First Nations in End TimesBibliographyIndex
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[ Transorientalism in Art, Fashion, and Film ] is a sensitive and informative account of expressions of culture and identity within fashion and the arts that exemplify transorientalism. As such, it offers an important contribution to the field of fashion studies and a useful guide to the convergence culture of our time.
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An examination of the ways in which exoticism is represented, reproduced, invented and exchanged in contemporary fashion, film, and art.
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Features a range of international case studies, taking us from Japan and China to India, Turkey, Iran and the modern Islamic diaspora.
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