Archaeology | Diplomacy | Art
Based on the intersecting lives of painter, archaeologist, and museologist Osman Hamdi Bey, American archaeologist and photographer John Henry Haynes, as well as Prof. Hermann Vollrath Hilprecht, the exhibition Osman Hamdi Bey and the Americans was curated by Prof. Renata Holod and Prof. Robert Ousterhout from the University of Pennsylvania.
The exhibition catalogue showcases a rich selection of paintings by Osman Hamdi Bey, archaeological photographs and drawings from the 19th century, letters, travel journals, and archaeological artifacts. Apart from his lesser-known paintings, two unknown works of Osman Hamdi Bey discovered at the Penn Museum are also introduced to readers.
Date of Publication: 2011
Number of pages: 411
ISBN: 978-975-9123-89-5
8 Foreword: Pera Museum welcomes Osman Hamdi Bey and the Americans in the fall of 2011
Suna, İnan & İpek Kıraç
10 Preface and Acknowledgments
Renata Holod & Robert Ousterhout
16 Osman Hamdi Bey and the Americans
Renata Holod & Robert Ousterhout
36 Archaeological Diplomacy and the Archaeological Institute of America’s Acquisitions of Symbol Capital
Susan Heuck Allen
48 John Henry Haynes’s Travels and Photographs of Anatolia in 1884-1887
Robert Ousterhout
62 “The Most Perfect Idea of a Greek City that anywhere Exists”: Assos, Archaeologists and American Ideologies
Bonna D. Wescoat
78 The University of Pennsylvania Nineteenth-Century Excavations at Nippur
Richard l. Zettler
94 The Paintings at the Penn Museum the Excavations of the University Museum at Nippur, Mesopotamia
Jamie Sanecki
102 From İstanbul to Philadelphia: The Journey of At the Mosque Door
Heather Hughes & Emily Neumeier
118 The Art of Osman Hamdi Bey
Emine Fetvacı
139 Catalogue
Three Intersecting Lives
153 The Beginnings of Ottoman Archaeology
168 Artist and Bureaucrat: Osman Hamdi Bey
200 The Unknown Photographer: John Henry Haynes
250 The Beginnings of the American Archaeology: Assos (1881-1883)
314 Nippur: The First Great Discovery
394 Bibliography
Based on the intersecting lives of painter, archaeologist and museologist Osman Hamdi Bey, American archaeologist and photographer John Henry Haynes, as well as Prof. Hermann Vollrath Hilprech, the exhibition focused on the first excavations American archaeologists conducted in Ottoman lands -Assos and Nippur- and the diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Exercises in Spaces and Texts
Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul, a History
Photographs From and Around Göbeklitepe
The Story of Stories
Works from the Nobel Collection
Photographs of the Anatolian Shore of the Bosphorus from the mid 19th to the 20th Century
Photographs of the Rumeli shore of the Bosphorus from the mid 19th to the 20th century
Suna Kıraç’ın izinde 10 yılın öyküsü
Rıdvan Akar
A History of Kütahya Pottery and Potters
Ernst Krickl
Paths to Rediscovery, 1800-1955
Byzantium in Popular Culture
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