ART IN TRANSLATION is pleased to announce the publication of a special issue:

Spain and Orientalism, vol. 9:1 (2017)

co-edited by Claudia Hopkins (University of Edinburgh) and Anna McSweeney (Warburg Institute)

This is the first English-language journal issue dedicated to Spanish Orientalism in art and visual culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. The peer-reviewed articles, drawn from a panel at the Association of Art Historians conference in 2016, examine Spain's complex relationship with her Islamic past and with Morocco, through art, architecture, photography and material culture. They address a range of topics including patterns of collecting, the reproduction of Islamic art and architecture for private and public spaces, the role of Spain’s Islamic heritage in the construction of a national identity as exemplified in Spanish exhibition pavilions, the intersections between art and colonialism, and the role of Spanish art and visual culture in the wider debates about Orientalism.

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfat20/9/1

Table of Contents:

Editorial: Spain and Orientalism
by Anna McSWEENEY and Claudia HOPKINS

The Arab Room of the Palacio de Cerralbo
by Ariane VARELA BRAGA

Reconstructing the Alhambra: Rafael Contreras and the Architectural Models of the Alhambra in the Nineteenth Century
by Asun GONZALEZ PEREZ

Mudéjar and the Alhambresque: Spanish Pavilions at the Universal Expositions and the Invention of a National Style
by Anna McSWEENEY

Vision, Lamentation and Nineteenth-Century Representations of the End of al-Andalus
by Oscar E. VÁZQUEZ 

Allende el Estrecho (Beyond the Straits): The Photographic Gaze on the Orient in Andalusia and Morocco
by David SÁNCHEZ CANO
 
Visualizing 'Moorish' Traces within Spain: Orientalism and Medievalist Nostalgia in Spanish Colonial Photojournalism 1909-33
by Elisabeth BOLORINOS ALLARD

The Politics of Spanish Orientalism: Distance and Proximity in Tapiró and Bertuchi
by Claudia HOPKINS

Select Bibliography: Spain and Orientalism