A l'Orientale

The present volume offers a collection of essays that examine the mechanisms and strategies of collecting, displaying and appropriating islamic art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Many studies in this book concentrate on lesser known collections of islamic art, situated in Central and Eastern Europe that until now have received little attention from scholars. Special attention is dedicated to the figure of the Swiss collector Henri Moser Charlottenfels, whose important, still largely unstudied collection of islamic art is now being preserved at the Bernisches Historisches Museum, Switzerland. Contributors to the volume include young researchers and established scholars from Western and Eastern Europe and beyond: Roger Nicholas Balsiger, Moya Carey, Valentina Colonna, Francine Giese, H l ne Gu rin, Barbara Karl, Katrin Kaufmann, Sarah Keller, Agnieszka Kluczewska W jcik, Inessa Kouteinikova, Axel Langer, Maria Medvedeva, gnes Sebesty n, Alban von Stockhausen, Ariane Varela Braga, Mercedes Volait. Les contributions de l'ouvrage examinent le m canisme et les strat gies relatifs la collection, la pr sentation et l'appropriation des arts de l'Islam au XIXe si cle et d but du XXe si cle. Elles mettent l'accent sur des collections situ es en Europe centrale et orientale, lesquelles ont t peu tudi es jusqu' pr sent. Une attention particuli re est d di e la figure du collectionneur Suisse Henri Moser Charlottenfels, dont les objets se trouvent aujourd'hui au Bernisches Historisches Museum (Suisse) et qui ont t de m me peu tudi s. Les textes manent de jeunes chercheurs comme de chercheurs confirm s, bas s en Europe occidentale et orientale, et au-del .