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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.

Title Imperfect chronology : Arab art from the modern to the contemporary : works from the Barjeel Art Foundation / edited by Omar Kholeif with Candy Stobbs.
Additional Titles Arab art from the modern to the contemporary : works from the Barjeel Art Foundation
Contributors Kholeif, Omar (editor)
Stobbs, Candy (editor)
Barjeel Art Foundation
(issuing body)
Whitechapel Art Gallery
(host institution)
Publisher London : Whitechapel Gallery
Munich : Prestel
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Catalog of an exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in four installments between September 8, 2015 and January 8, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references.
Content 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.
Timeline -- Artists' biographies -- Authors' biographies -- List of works.
Extent 272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)
28 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 990038653340205171

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