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سجل من تاريخ لم يكتمل : الفن العربي من الحديث إلى المعاصر / أعمال من مؤسسة بارجيل للفنون ؛ إشراف عمر خليف.

Contributor(s): Kholeif, Omar | Stobbs, Candy | Barjeel Art Foundation | Whitechapel Art GalleryMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Munich ; London ; New York : Whitechapel Gallery ; Prestel, [2015] Description: 272 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cmISBN: 9783791366302Uniform titles: Imperfect chronology. Arabic Subject(s): Barjeel Art Foundation -- Exhibitions | Art, Arab -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Art, Arab -- 21st century -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: N7265.3 | .I47125 2016
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Catalog of an exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in four installments between September 8, 2015 and January 8, 2017.

List of artists: Shafic Abboud, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Etel Adnan, Manal Al Dowayan, Munira Al-Kazi, Sophia Al-Maria, Abdul Qader Al Rais, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Sadik Alfraji, Ahmad Nashaat Alzuaby, Marwa Arsanios, Ragheb Ayad, Dia Azzawi, Marwan Kassab Bachi (Marwan), Tayseer Barakat, Yto Barrada, Farid Belkahia, Abdallah Benanteur, Kamal Boullata, Huguette Caland, Ahmed Cherkaoui, Ali Cherri, Ervand Demerdjian, Inji Efflatoun, Abdul Hadi El-Gazzar, Ibrahim El Salahi, Hamed Ewais, GCC Collective, Khalil Gibran, Abdelkader Guermaz, Paul Guiragossian, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Mona Hatoum, Kadhim Hayder, Susan Hefuna, Khaled Hourani, Jafar Islah, Ibrahim Ismail, Iman Issa, Mohammed Issiakhem, Youssef Kamel, Mohammed Kazem, Miloud Labeid, Maha Maamoun, Basim Magdy, Jumana Manna, Suleiman Mansour, Fateh Moudarres, Hamed Nada, Effat Nagi, Walid Raad, Samir Rafi, Michael Rakowitz, Mohammed Sabry, Mahmoud Said, Zineb Sedira, Jewad Selim, Walid Shami, Hassan Sharif, Hussein Shariffe, Ahmed Shibrain, Akram Zaatari, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

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.

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