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The elite taste of the time. i mean, ok, cosplay may be not quite the art—historically appropriate term, but there's a sort of sense of dressing up that clearly, his clients, they wanted that. yeah, exactly. the beginnings of all of that fantastical side, if you like, of orientalism. i feel there's glimmerings of that here. so fundamentally, orientalism is about the west's imagined vision of the east, but the pera is also home to work by a fascinating artist, long considered a turkish orientalist — osman hamdi bey. his masterpiece is the tortoise trainer. but before we look at it, baris wa...

He can say, "look, if you dress up in this, i've brought this "as well, i've got the dress here. "you could look as beautiful as mimica." is that sort of the idea? exactly. european people, everybody was interested in ottoman culture, and everything related with it. it's interesting to sort of think that this was almost like a very high, classy advertisement for what he could do. this is an image which is projecting status, fashionability — the elite taste of the time. i mean, ok, cosplay may be not quite the art—historically appropriate term, but there's a sort of sense of dressing up tha...

That this was almost like a very high, classy advertisement for what he could do. this is an image which is projecting status, fashionability — the elite taste of the time. i mean, ok, cosplay may be not quite the art—historically appropriate term, but there's a sort of sense of dressing up that clearly, his clients, they wanted that. yeah, exactly. the beginnings of all of that fantastical side, if you like, of orientalism. i feel there's glimmerings of that here. so fundamentally, orientalism is about the west's imagined vision of the east, but the pera is also home to work by a fascinat...