9781633450387-1633450384-Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents)

Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents)

ISBN-13: 9781633450387
ISBN-10: 1633450384
Author: Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, Nada Shabout
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 464 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781633450387
ISBN-10: 1633450384
Author: Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, Nada Shabout
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 464 pages

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Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents) (ISBN-13: 9781633450387 and ISBN-10: 1633450384), written by authors Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, Nada Shabout, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2018. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Criticism (Arts History & Criticism) books. You can easily purchase or rent Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (MoMA Primary Documents) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $15.7.

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Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents offers an unprecedented resource for the study of modernism: a compendium of critical art writings by twentieth-century Arab intellectuals and artists. The selection of texts—many of which appear here for the first time in English—includes manifestos, essays, transcripts of roundtable discussions, diary entries, exhibition guest-book comments, letters, and more. Traversing empires and nation-states, diasporas and speculative cultural and political federations, these documents bring light to the formation of a global modernism, through debates on originality, public space, spiritualism and art, postcolonial exhibition politics, and Arab nationalism, among many other topics. The collection is framed chronologically, and includes contextualizing commentaries to assist readers in navigating its broad geographic and historical scope. Interspersed throughout the volume are sixteen contemporary essays: writings by scholars on key terms and events as well as personal reflections by modern artists who were themselves active in the histories under consideration. A newly commissioned essay by historian and Arab-studies scholar Ussama Makdisi provides a historical overview of the region’s intertwined political and cultural developments during the twentieth century. Modern Art in the Arab World is an essential addition to the investigation of modernism and its global manifestations.

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