ISBN:
9783791354859
Language:
English
Pages:
272 S.
,
zahlr. Ill.
DDC:
709.1/74927/0745357
Keywords:
Barjeel Art Foundation Exhibitions
;
Art, Arab Exhibitions 20th century
;
Art, Arab Exhibitions 21st century
;
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Abstract:
Celebrating the Barjeel Art Foundation's expansive collection, this book maps a genealogy from modern to contemporary Arab art and offers one of the most extensive presentations of modern Arab art in print
Note:
Introduction
,
The Arab world : a sum of its parts
,
Tracing routes : debating Modernism, mapping the contemporary
,
Notes on verbal dominance and visual expression in Arab culture
,
The exhibition and the Agora : contemporary Arab representations (2001-07)
,
Collecting modern Iraqi art
,
Egypt at the Venice Biennale : 1967 and the year that changed everything
,
Be still my beating heart part 1 : a fugue in fictional art history
,
A speculative reading of Al-Wahesh wal miskeen by Fateh Moudarres
,
The Middle East and South Asia : aesthetic mobilities
,
Extracts from The Arab apocalypse
,
Debating Modernism I ; Debating Modernism II ; Mapping the contemporary I ; Mapping the contemporary II.