Ivana Jevtić and Suzan 209 Yalman, eds., Spolia Reincarnated: Afterlives of Objects, Materials, and Spaces in Anatolia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Era

Year 2019, Volume: 1, 209 - 210, 27.12.2019

Emily Neumeier

https://doi.org/10.53979/yillik.2019.15

Abstract

Back in 2006, the art historian Dale Kinney declared that “spolia are hot,” with the “once obscure antiquarian subject” being thrust into the spotlight of academic theory.1 Well, fast forward more than a decade later, and it seems that the topic of spolia is more popular than ever. The number of conferences, lectures, and publications all concerned with charting how and why people reuse materials in new contexts continues to expand, and the latest contribution to this corpus is the volume Spolia Reincarnated: Afterlives of Objects, Materials, and Spaces in Anatolia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Era (2018), edited by Ivana Jevtić and Suzan Yalman. As one may gather from the title, the authors in this volume have a specific geographic focus, examining case studies of reuse throughout the region of Anatolia, an area that today comprises most of modern Turkey

Keywords

spolia, anatolia, Ivana Jevtić

Ivana Jevtić and Suzan 209 Yalman, eds., Spolia Reincarnated: Afterlives of Objects, Materials, and Spaces in Anatolia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Era

Abstract

Ivana Jevtić and Suzan Yalman, eds., Spolia Reincarnated: Afterlives of Objects, Materials, and Spaces in Anatolia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Era. Istanbul: Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, 2018 kitabının değerlendirmesi.

Keywords

spolia, devşirme, anadolu

References

• 1 Dale Kinney, “The Concept of Spolia,” in A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, edited by Conrad Rudolph (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 233.
• 2 And, thanks to scholars such as Finbarr Barry Flood, spolia studies have also made notable inroads into the art and architecture of the Islamic world, especially in Southeast Asia.
• 3 Richard Brilliant and Dale Kinney, eds., Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine (London; New York: Routledge, 2011).
• 4 Zainab Bahrani, Zeynep Çelik, and Edhem Eldem, eds., Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 (Istanbul: SALT, 2011); Benjamin Anderson and Felipe Rojas, Antiquarianisms: Contact, Conflict, Comparison (Oxford: Philadelphia Oxbow Books, 2017).