Books featured in Issue 39

 

 






 

Art Books

Architecture

Cookery

Fiction

History & Biography

Modern Turkey

Music

Photography

Textiles & Ceramics

Travel


Steppe Magazine


Selvedge Magazine


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Nomads in Anatolia: Their Life and Their Textiles - Encounters with a Vanishing Culture,
by Harald Bohmer with Josephine Powell and Serife Atlihan
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The story of the smiling camel
Cornucopia 39

Robert Chenciner reviews Nomads in Anatolia, the culmination of Harald Bohmer's work with Josephine Powell recording the lives of Anatolian nomads.
 

Publication of this book coincides with the exhibiton The Splendour of Anatolia: The Unknown Turkey
at Kunsthall, Rotterdam
 


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with this book

More books on nomadic culture from Cornucopia book offers
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Turkic Speaking Peoples:
2,000 years of Art and Culture from Inner Asia
to the Balkans.
Edited by Ergun Cagatay and Dogan Kuban
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The Classical Tradition in Anatolian Carpets
by Walter Denny
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Kyrgyzstan
Nomadic costume
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A tale of two halves
Exhibition review by John Carswell, Cornucopia 39 p16
An ambitious exhibition of blue and white porcelain finally sees the light of day in Stockholm.
John Carswell, who dreamt it up twenty years ago, pieces together the history
 


Exhibition catalogue
 

 


Iznik Pottery
by John Carswell
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Blue & White:
Chinese Porcelain around the World
by John Carswell
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Out of the shadows
Book review by David Barchard
Cornucopia 39

 


Gerald Fitzmaurice (1865 - 1939)
Chief Dragoman of the British Empire in Turkey
by GR Berridge
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Image © Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge
For a complete list of David Barchard's profiles of heroes
and anti-heroes in Turkey during the Victorian and Edwardian eras:
www.cornucopia.net/barchard.html

It's a wonderfully weird world
The art of Gurbuz Dogan Eksioglu.
Profile by Andrew Finkel
Cornucopia 39

 

 


www.gurbuz-de.com

 

Gurbuz Dogan Eksioglu's wit and graphic sensibility won over the Big Apple when his cartoon was chosen for the cover of the New Yorker on the anniversary
of 9/11.

Order the catalogue of his recent show at Istanbul's Milli Reasurans Art Gallery (Februaty 2008)
from Cornucopia Book Offers

 

Travels in no-man's-land
Heath Lowry reviews Robert Osterhout's study of Byzantine Thrace
Cornucopia 39
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The Byzantine Monuments
of the Evros/Meric River Valley

by Robert Ousterhout
www.en.eren.com.tr
 


The Nature of the Early
Ottoman State
by Heath Lowry
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The Shaping of the Ottoman Balkans, 1350-1550: The Conquest, Settlement
and Infrastructural Development
of Northern Greece
by Heath Lowry
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