This volume describes the attitudes and cultural mores of those countries typically positioned on the geographical margins of the western European art scene building both a satisfyingly comprehensive and very specific picture of the social and cultural histories of countries at the Continental margins. * Visual Culture * [ T]his edited volume offers a number of very rich case studies from different geographies within Europe. The chapters merge primary and secondary sources and open up possibilities for a critical interpretation of visual materials through the history of ethnography and anthropology. As such, the edited volume should be of interest to an interdisciplinary readership interested in the construction of the other through visual depictions. * German Studies Review * The marriage of intellectual historical writing to the analysis of art is a fresh approach to postcolonial studies ... [ a] clever book. * Mosse Program Blog * Focusing our attention on the often contested and frequently porous "borders of Europe", this essential collection of essays complicates our understanding of how race, ethnicity, and national identity have been constructed and operationalized through art, design, and visual culture. * Allison Morehead, Associate Professor of Art History, Queens University, Canada * A compelling and timely collection of essays based on immaculate research that will alter the readers critical understanding of the complex cultural-political engagement with subordinate ethnic groups in parts of Europe that have too long been marginalised by postcolonial discourse. * Sabine Wieber, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Glasgow, UK *
