Imperfect Chronology: Arab Art from the Modern to the Contemporary Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation

Type

Book

Authors

Kholeif, Omar

ISBN 10

379135485X

ISBN 13

9783791354859

Tags

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions, Criticism, History, Cities & Architecture, Flowers & Landscapes

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.

Description

Introduction / Iwona Blazwick
The Arab world a sum of its parts / Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
Tracing routes debating Modernism, mapping the contemporary / Omar Kholeif
Notes on verbal dominance and visual expression in Arab culture / Kamal Boullata
The exhibition and the Agora contemporary Arab representations (2001-07) / Edward McDonald-Toone
Collecting modern Iraqi art / Nada Shabout
Egypt at the Venice Biennale 1967 and the year that changed everything / Gilane Tawadros
Be still my beating heart part 1 a fugue in fictional art history / Rasha Salti
A speculative reading of Al-Wahesh wal miskeen by Fateh Moudarres / Rasha Salti
The Middle East and South Asia aesthetic mobilities / Iftikhar Dadi
Extracts from The Arab apocalypse / Etel Adnan
Debating Modernism I
Debating Modernism II
Mapping the contemporary I
Mapping the contemporary II.

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