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The Art And Life Of Chaouki Chamoun
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Book Synopsis The Art and Life of Chaouki Chamoun by : Chaouki Chamoun
Download or read book The Art and Life of Chaouki Chamoun written by Chaouki Chamoun and published by Saqi Books - Saqi Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond a record of Chaouki Chamoun's life and art, this book delves into what drives an artist to create.
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set) by : Susan Sinclair
Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set) written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Book Synopsis The Art of Rawas by : Mohammad Rawas
Download or read book The Art of Rawas written by Mohammad Rawas and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing today at the peak of an outstanding artistic career, those familiar with Rawas' work will welcome this volume as a much-needed permanent source of reference. This is a unique introduction to his work with 160 reproductions presented here.
Download or read book The Art of Madi written by Hussein Madi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of the painter, sculptor and printmaker Hussein Madi has been viewed by thousands of people around the world at such venues as the British Museum, the Venice Biennale and Tokyo's Ueno Museum. However, it has never before been made available as a published retrospective. This long-overdue book contains an invaluable overview of Madi's work of four decades, in which his intensely personal fusion of European and Islamic influences always presents itself with a force that is both arresting and subtle. Madi's joyful experiments in colour and form have resulted in a unique body of work that relates to modern artists like Matisse and Picasso as well as to the principles of divine harmony that inform the abstract designs of Islamic art. Whether in two or three dimensions, Madi's lines sing with a spontaneous freedom that belies the careful, even exacting, calculations that the artist invests in each work. This combination of meticulousness and sensuality is everywhere evident in Madi's work, inspired by his profound belief in "God's universal order, in which everything is different and yet composed of the same cosmic elements." A tireless and highly prolific artist, Madi has achieved a lifetime output of virtually countless works in a variety of media. This book--with over 500 colour plates--will serve as a touchstone for both long-time admirers and initiates to his oeuvre.
Download or read book Bidoun written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maliheh Afnan written by Maliheh Afnan and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spans the 50-year career of Maliheh Afnan, recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists from the Middle East.
Book Synopsis Palestinian Art 1850-2005 by : Kamal Boullata
Download or read book Palestinian Art 1850-2005 written by Kamal Boullata and published by Saqi Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the sixtieth year of the Palestinian "Nakba," or "Catastrophe," with a preface by John Berger.
Book Synopsis Koorosh Shishegaran by : Hamid Keshmirshekan
Download or read book Koorosh Shishegaran written by Hamid Keshmirshekan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First monograph on one of the leading lights of the contemporary Iranian art movement.
Download or read book 73 Poems written by Kenneth Goldsmith and published by Permanent Press (NY). This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Art. Music. Book and CD set. "73 Poems" is the product of a collaboration between Kenneth Goldsmith and Joan La Barbara, known for her work with John Cage and Morton Feldman. Goldsmith's visual poems, elegantly reproduced in this Permanent Press book, are given an aural interpretation on the 45-minute CD that accompanies it.
Book Synopsis Parastou Forouhar by : Parastū Furūhar
Download or read book Parastou Forouhar written by Parastū Furūhar and published by Saqi Books - Saqi Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parastou Forouhar's work has a great emotional range, from the macabre to the darkly humorous and the often purely joyful.
Book Synopsis Always Coca-Cola by : Alexandra Chreiteh
Download or read book Always Coca-Cola written by Alexandra Chreiteh and published by Interlink Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator of Always Coca-Cola, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her father’s flower shop. Abeer’s bedroom window is filled by a view of a Coca-Cola sign featuring the image of her sexually adventurous friend, Jana. From the novel’s opening paragraph—“When my mother was pregnant with me, she had only one craving. That craving was for Coca-Cola”—first-time novelist Alexandra Chreiteh asks us to see, with wonder, humor, and dismay, how inextricably confused naming and desire, identity and branding are. The names—and the novel’s edgy, cynical humor—might be recognizable across languages, but Chreiteh’s novel is first and foremost an exploration of a specific Lebanese milieu. Critics in Lebanon have called the novel “an electric shock.”
Book Synopsis Out of Beirut by : Modern Art Oxford
Download or read book Out of Beirut written by Modern Art Oxford and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Islamic Art and the Museum by : Benoît Junod
Download or read book Islamic Art and the Museum written by Benoît Junod and published by Saqi Books - Saqi Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, multi-authored volume on the issues and politics of curating Islamic art in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Keep Your Eye on the Wall by : Olivia Kiang-Snaije
Download or read book Keep Your Eye on the Wall written by Olivia Kiang-Snaije and published by Saqi Books - Saqi Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful, unique and beautifully produced - an insightful and thought-provoking critique of the Wall around Palestine.
Download or read book The Map of Love written by Ahdaf Soueif and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and the United States over the course of a century. Isabel Parkman, a divorced American journalist, has fallen in love with a gifted and difficult Egyptian-American conductor. Shadowing her romance is the courtship of her great-grandparents Anna and Sharif nearly one hundred years before. In 1900 the recently widows Anna Winterbourne left England for Egypt, an outpost of the Empire roiling with political sentiment. She soon found herself enraptured by the real Egypt and in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baroudi, an Egyptian nationalist. When Isabel, in an attempt to discover the truth behind her heritage, reenacts Anna’s excursion to Egypt, the story of her great-grandparents unravels before her, revealing startling parallels for her own life. Combining the romance and intricate narrative of a nineteenth-century novel with a very modern sense of culture and politics—both sexual and international—Ahdaf Soueif has created a thoroughly seductive and mesmerizing tale.
Book Synopsis Vampire in the Text by : Jean Fisher
Download or read book Vampire in the Text written by Jean Fisher and published by Turner A&r Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Resisting orthodox interpretative discourse, this collection of writings by Jean Fisher traces the author's journey through the political and intellectual turbulence of the past twenty years and its impact on both artistic practice and the writing of art. Through her close study of Anglo/Irish and US/Native American colonial and contemporary relations, Fisher explores the efficacity of artistic practice in the construction of political and subjective agency. Each essay in Part One maps a possible terrain for approaching the work of a single artist - among them, James Coleman, Jimmie Durham, Susan Hiller, Gabriel Orozco and Adrian Piper - while the texts in Part Two reflect upon artistic practice in relation to questions of subjectivity, postcoloniality and multiculturalism." "The author's interdisciplinary approach to writing provides a richly varied insight into the relationship between the practices of visual art and theory and has been highly influential to a generation of international scholars, artists and curators."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Arab Fall written by Eric Trager and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood win power so quickly after the dramatic "Arab Spring" uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's thirty-year reign in February 2011? And why did the Brotherhood fall from power even more quickly, culminating with the popular "rebellion" and military coup that toppled Egypt's first elected president, Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, in July 2013? In Arab Fall, Eric Trager examines the Brotherhood's decision making throughout this critical period, explaining its reasons for joining the 2011 uprising, running for a majority of the seats in the 2011-2012 parliamentary elections, and nominating a presidential candidate despite its initial promise not to do so. Based on extensive research in Egypt and interviews with dozens of Brotherhood leaders and cadres including Morsi, Trager argues that the very organizational characteristics that helped the Brotherhood win power also contributed to its rapid downfall. The Brotherhood's intensive process for recruiting members and its rigid nationwide command-chain meant that it possessed unparalleled mobilizing capabilities for winning the first post-Mubarak parliamentary and presidential elections. Yet the Brotherhood's hierarchical organizational culture, in which dissenters are banished and critics are viewed as enemies of Islam, bred exclusivism. This alienated many Egyptians, including many within Egypt's state institutions. The Brotherhood's insularity also prevented its leaders from recognizing how quickly the country was slipping from their grasp, leaving hundreds of thousands of Muslim Brothers entirely unprepared for the brutal crackdown that followed Morsi's overthrow. Trager concludes with an assessment of the current state of Egyptian politics and examines the Brotherhood's prospects for reemerging.
