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Dissonant archives : contemporary visual culture and contested narratives in the Middle East / edited by Anthony Downey. - London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015. - 469 p. : ill. (some color) ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.


"Dissonant Archives is the first book to consider the
various ways in which contemporary artists from North
Africa and the Middle East utilize and disrupt the
function of the archive and, in so doing, highlight a
systemic and perhaps irrevocable crisis in institutional
and state-ordained archiving across the region"--
Publisher's website.

ISBN: 9781784534110

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Art archives--Middle East.
Art--History--Archives.--Middle East
Archives--Philosophy.

LC Class. No.: N7265.3 / .D5 2015