1890'larda İstanbul: Francis Marion Crawford ve Edwin Lord Weeks'in Sanat İşbirliği

Abstract

American writer and traveler Francis Marion Crawford has a strong place in American literature with his over forty romantic novels, horror stories, history books and dramas. American painter, writer and traveler Edwin Lord Weeks became famous with his Moroccan and Indian paintings at the Paris Salon exhibitions and won various awards. Francis Marion Crawford and Edwin Lord Weeks, who traveled to Istanbul during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, came together and produced a work different from their contemporaries on the subject of Istanbul. Crawford’s impressions of Istanbul accompanied by Weeks’ paintings were published in 1895 entitled “Constantinople”. Our study aimed to examine and assess the “Constantinople” travelogue in terms of Istanbul of the period. The themes in the travelogue were city views, water culture, daily life, ghosts and legendary stories, street life, architectural structures and fine arts, etc. In our study, these themes were analyzed within the context of the Istanbul of the period and in line with the personal and artistic features of the travelogue producers. In the assessment, the themes in the travelogue, the paintings portraying the themes, the relationship between the themes and the paintings, the style of the paintings, the narrative style of the travelogue and other different aspects were revealed. Francis Marion Crawford’s “Constantinople” travelogue, which is a work that hasn’t been studied within the scope of a thesis at national and international levels, has been examined for the first time. Therefore, our thesis has contributed to the literature as an original study.