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Contemporary Art from the Middle East
How is home-grown contemporary art viewed within the Middle East? And is it understood differently outside the region? What is liable to be lost when contemporary art from the Middle East is ‘transferred’ to international contexts - and how can it be reclaimed? This timely book tackles ongoing questions about how ‘local’ perspectives on contemporary art from the Middle East are defined and how these perspectives intersect with global art discourses. Inside, leading figures from the Middle Eastern art world, western art historians, art theorists and museum curators discuss the historical and cultural circumstances which have shaped contemporary art from the Middle East, reflecting on recent exhibitions and curatorial projects and revealing how artists have struggled with the label of ‘Middle Eastern Artist’. Chapters reflect on the fundamental methodologies of art history and cultural studies - considering how relevant they are when studying contemporary art from the Middle East - and investigate the ways in which contemporary, so-called ‘global’, theories impact on the making of art in the region. Drawing on their unique expertise, the book’s contributors offer completely new perspectives on the most recent cultural, intellectual and socio-political developments of contemporary art from the Middle East.
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Geometry and art in the modern Middle East
In a groundbreaking volume about the use of Islamic geometry in modern and contemporary art from the region, Middle East art expert and Sothebys Deputy Chairman Roxane Zand, and Dr Sussan Babaie professor of Islamic arts at the Courtauld Institute of Art of the University of London, explore ways in which traditional geometric legacies are applied and interpreted in new contexts. Dr Babaie's scholarly essay traces the significance of geometry in the history of Islamic arts, looking at the emergence of modernisms of the Middle East through the prism of selected works by twenty artists and their multidisciplinary practices. Their works underscore the distinctive ways geometry, a universal heritage, has inspired the art of the region. Lavishly illustrated and bound, the book is aimed at both the general user and those with academic interest.
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Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East
This timely book examines the power and role of the image in modern Middle Eastern societies. The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images \"speak\" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East addresses aspects of the visual in the Islamic world, including the presentation of Islam on television; on the internet and other digital media; in banners, posters, murals, and graffiti; and in the satirical press, cartoons, and children's books.
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Artists of the Middle East : 1900 to now
The vibrant and varied art of the Middle East and North Africa is brought together in this beautifully illustrated book through the life and work of more than 250 artists, covering a 120-year period of creative activity from 1900 to the present day. Each of the eighty alphabetically arranged, feature-length biographies offers a critical analysis of an artist's work and its cultural significance, as well as illustrating key works.
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Critical Approaches to Ancient Near Eastern Art
This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.
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Saint George Between Empires
This volume examines Saint George's intertwined traditions in
the competing states of the eastern Mediterranean and
Transcaucasia, demonstrating how rival conceptions of this
well-known saint became central to Crusader, Eastern Christian, and
Islamic medieval visual cultures.
Saint George Between Empires links the visual cultures
of Byzantium, North Africa, the Levant, Syria, and the Caucasus
during the Crusader era to redraw our picture of interfaith
relations and artistic networks. Heather Badamo recovers and
recontextualizes a vast body of images and literature-from
etiquette manuals and romances to miracle accounts and
chronicles-to describe the history of Saint George during a period
of religious and political fragmentation, between his \"rise\" to
cross-cultural prominence in the eleventh century and his
\"globalization\" in the fifteenth. In Badamo's analysis, George
emerges as an exemplar of cross-cultural encounter and global
translation.
Featuring important new research on monuments and artworks that
are no longer available to scholars as a result of the occupation
of Syria and parts of Iraq, Saint George Between Empires
will be welcomed by scholars of Byzantine, medieval, Islamic, and
Eastern Christian art and cultural studies.
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Art of the Middle East : modern and contemporary art of the Arab world and Iran
Steeped in history and tradition, artistic expression in the Arab world and Iran is experiencing a renaissance of its very own. Domestic patronage is flourishing and an array of new museums and art fairs across the region is helping to stimulate international interest in an increasingly noticeable movement. This work is a survey of modern and contemporary art of the Arab world and Iran from the mid-1950s to the present day. The book begins with a highly informative introduction to the subject. It is then divided into seven themed sections, including sacred scripture; music and performance; and politics, conflict and war. Extended captions provide a commentary on each work and the artist behind its creation, while also placing it in a wider context. It contains more than 450 colour illustrations, a guide to Arabic script, and biographies of the 200 plus featured artists -- From book jacket.
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A companion to ancient Near Eastern art
Provides a broad view of the history and current state of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This book covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid Persian Empire around 330 BCE. It describes and examines the field from a variety of critical.
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