Projektnummer

0065283

Zusammenfassung

This project centers on episodes of state violence against non-Muslims in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. Different kinds of symbolic, material and economic dispossession were part of these episodes of state violence, in the course of which artworks were looted, confiscated, or made illegible. Based on archival research, oral histories, expert interviews, and examinations of the laws that have governed moveable heritage and art in the late Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and the international arena this project asks: How has the material absence or misattribution of disposs...