Author : Atlas Group
Publisher : Walther Konig Verlag
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN :
Explores the contemporary history of Lebanon, scarred by civil war. Here, the author asks if and when experiences of a guerilla war can ever be documented.
Author : Eva Respini
Publisher :
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art, Lebanese
ISBN : 9780870709739
Lebanese artist Walid Raad is one of the leading artists of his generation and an influential voice in art from the Middle East. Published to accompany the first comprehensive exhibition of his work in the United States, this catalogue surveys three decades of Raad's unique practice in a variety of mediums - including photography, video and performance - and examines the critical intersections that have defined the notable career of this inventive artist. Beginning with his groundbreaking project The Altas Group (1989-2004), to his recent sweeping work on the history of art in the Arab world (2007-ongoing), the publication offers an overview of Raad's career and features his most momentous bodies of work. Essays by curators and scholars place Raad's art in the context of contemporary image making in photography and video, as well as art made in Lebanon since the 1960s; provide an overview of Raad's performance lectures in relationship to his oeuvre; and examine Raad's most recent bodies of work made in the Islamic galleries at the Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, which explores the history, collecting, and display of historical and modern art and artifacts from the Arab world and Iran. A special 10 page contribution by Raad presents a fictional interview with multiple artists, which provides rare insight into the artist's working method and addresses various themes that run throughout his work.
Author : Fereshteh Daftari
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870700859
Is it possible to speak of a contemporary art with an Islamic difference? This question is the subject of an exhibition that brings together artists who come from the Islamic world. Tapping into certain aesthetic, political, and spiritual notions, this book seeks to highlight the nuanced reactions of each individual artist.
Author : Walid Raad
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 9783865603319
This book, for the first time, presents an anthology of The Atlas Group from 1997 ? 2007 and reproduces the main visual and literary essays and articles by Walid Raad and The Atlas Group, including interviews and writings. The Atlas Group was founded by the artist as an imaginary foundation to compile an archive of a fictional nature on the contemporary history of Lebanon ? notebooks, films, videotapes, photographs and lectures that attribute to fictional characters. This publication, designed and conceived by Walid Raad, complements the published volumes of his artist?s books. From the Cornerhouse website.
Author : Karl Bassil
Publisher : Mind the Gap/Arab Image Foundation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN :
Setting up on a sunny day at the beach or snapping a passport photo, the studio photographer measures out his working day in repeated frames, fixing the ordinary customer on film. Addressing the enduring value of these portraits and the viewer's common humanity with the subjects is the aim of Mapping Sitting, a collection of studio photographs, primarily from the 1950s and 1960s, that shows an Arab world that defies stereotypes. Drawn from the archives of the Arab Image Foundation, whose mission is to rescue and preserve indigenous Arab photography, and curated by two Lebanese-born artists, Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, these photographs provide a moving mosaic of Middle Eastern men and women posing in the studio, lounging on the sand, or goofing around on bikes. There are also pages of carefully indexed passport photos, which become charged with meaning in a post-9/11 world. The exhibition from which Mapping Sitting was drawn, mounted at the Grey Art Gallery in New York, was widely reviewed in publications such as The New York Times and New York Magazine.
Author : Jalal Toufic
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Author : Jalal Toufic
Publisher : Theoretical Astrophysics (Pape
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,72 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The author, son of an Iraqi father and a Palestinian mother, lived in Lebanon for 17 years; this extraordinary fictionalized memoir derives much of its intensity from Toufic's exposure to three of the world's most devastated peoples. Viewing life through the eyes of Nietzsche and Kafka, he deftly turns sitting in a cafe into an autobiographical narrative blended with philosophy and observations on cinema gleaned from his own experience as a filmmaker. The text turns on a metaphoric excavation of an always underway process or state of 'distraction'-- A state which for Toufic is not so much an attitude or level of concentration as it is an ontological modality. Insightful, funny, erotic, at times bizarre, Distracted offers an indelible vision of daily life by a man born on the twin currents of art and history.
Author : Okwui Enwezor
Publisher : Steidl
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN :
Organized and written by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever presents works by leading contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. Over the past thirty years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to the photographic and filmic archive. The works presented here take many forms, including physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing methods, imagined biographies of fictitious persons, collections of found and anonymous photographs, film versions of photographic albums, and photomontages composed of historical photographs. These images have a wide-ranging subject matter yet are linked by the artists shared meditation on photography and film as the quintessential media of the archive. Artists in the exhibition include Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Zoe Leonard, Ilán Lieberman, Walid Raad, Thomas Ruff, Anri Sala, Fazal Sheikh, Eyal Sivan, Lorna Simpson, and Vivan Sundaram, among others.
Author : Modern Art Oxford
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art, Lebanese
ISBN :
Beirut had been a renowned resort and a center of culture and style for hundreds of years, when, in the late twentieth century, it became the site of terrible violence and trauma. More than 15 years after the official end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990, political instability, bombings and assassinations still dominate the international headlines, obscuring years of swift change. In that time, Beirut became fertile ground for radical and innovative art-making and critical thought. "Out of Beirut" introduces new and recent work by artists who have been at the forefront of that activity, and who, in this new time of turmoil and change, will be watching Beirut's fate closely, chronicling it, and perhaps by their responses, changing it. With work by Fadi Abdallah, Gilbert Hage, Heartland, Bernard Khoury, Rabib Mroue, Walid Raad, Walid Sadek, Jalal Toufic, Paola Yacoub and Michel Lasserre and Akram Zaatari, among others.
Author : Melissa Chiu
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Museum techniques
ISBN : 9780692277638
"Making a museum in the 21st Century is an essential overview of pressing issues faced by museums around the world in a new era of audience engagement. This book contains essays from luminaries in the field along with selected transcriptions from the 2013 inaugural Asia Society Arts & Museum Summit. The perspectives of prominent museum leaders, directors, and curators are presented alongside those of top architects and artists as they tackle questions about the form and function of a museum in the 21st century."--Back cover.
