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Title Modern art in the Arab world : primary documents / edited by Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, Nada Shabout.
Publisher New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2018]
Copyright ©2018


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Description 462 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
ISBN 9781633450387 paperback
1633450384 paperback
Note "'Modern Art in the Arab World' the eighth volume in the Museum of Modern Art's Primay Docuemnts series"--Front cover flap.
"This book is devoted to documenting the tremendous discursive energies of modern artists and critics who lived and worked in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East and North Africa."--Introduction.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "'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 for the first time in English--includes manifestos, essays, transcripts of roundtable discussions, diary entries, letters, and the guest-book comments including those featured here. Traversing empires and nation-states, diasporas and speculative cultural and political federations, the book's 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" --Post (Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)) website (viewed on June 4, 2018)
Series Primary documents publication series (Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)) ; 8.
Library Class Fine Arts A6260
Subject Art, Arab -- Middle East -- 20th century.
Art, Arab -- Middle East -- 21st century.
Art, Arab -- Africa, North -- 20th century.
Art, Arab -- Africa, North -- 21st century.
Other Author Lenssen, Anneka, editor.
Rogers, Sarah, editor.
Shabout, Nada M., 1962- editor.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body.

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