ARS APODEMICA: From the Sadberk Hanım Museum and Ömer Koç Collections

Editor:  Ayşen Anadol
Authors:  Hülyâ Bilgi, Vera Costantini, Şebnem Eryavuz, Lâle Görünür, William Kynan-Wilson, Bahattin Öztuncay, Günsel Renda, Turgut Saner, Makbule Merve Uca
Translation:  Ayşen Anadol
Design:   Yeşim Demir Pröhl
Page number:  538
ISBN:  978-605-9606-59-2
Publisher:  Vehbi Koç Vakfı

Review Publication

Ars Apodemica exhibition catalogue has been published in two separate editions, in Turkish and English. It features forewords by Ömer Koç and Hülya Bilgi, and short essays on the exhibition’s conceptual framework by its curator, Makbule Merve Uca. The catalogue entries were written by the curator and Dr Şebnem Eryavuz. The photographs featured in the catalogue were taken by Hadiye Cangökçe and Aydın Berk Bilgin, and the graphic design was created by Yeşim Demir Pröhl.

The catalogue also includes contributions by the following authors:

Makbule Merve Uca – Art of Travel
Turgut Saner - ‘Journey Within Journey’: Architecture’s Power to Arouse Emotion and Emotional Journeys of Traveller-Artists
William Kynan-Wilson - ‘I Gave Them Severall Accounts’: Disentangling the Motivations of Early Modern Travellers to the Ottoman World
Şebnem Eryavuz - From Istanbul to Hejaz: The Holy Journey as Described by Pilgrims
Günsel Renda - Reflections of Diplomatic Relations in Art
Lâle Görünür - Turquerie
Vera Costantini - Alter Sive Amicus: Venice and the Ottomans Between Harmony and Otherness
Hülya Bilgi - Curiosity, Trade, Gifts: The Journey of Splendour from Palace to Palace
Bahattin Öztuncay - From One Thousand and One Nights Tales to the Holy Land: Interaction Between Paintings and Photographs in the Context of Orientalism