Contemporary art from the Middle East : regional interactions with global art discourses / edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keshmirshekan, Hamid, editor.

Series:

International library of modern and contemporary art ; 18.

International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Eastern art--20th century.

Middle Eastern art.

Middle Eastern art--21st century.

Modern art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 263 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Summary:

How is home-grown contemporary art viewed within the Middle East? And is it understood differently outside the region? What is liable to be lost when contemporary art from the Middle East is 'transferred' to international contexts - and how can it be reclaimed? This timely book tackles ongoing questions about how 'local' perspectives on contemporary art from the Middle East are defined and how these perspectives intersect with global art discourses. Inside, leading figures from the Middle Eastern art world, western art historians, art theorists and museum curators discuss the historical and cultural circumstances which have shaped contemporary art from the Middle East, reflecting on recent exhibitions and curatorial projects and revealing how artists have struggled with the label of 'Middle Eastern Artist'. Chapters reflect on the fundamental methodologies of art history and cultural studies - considering how relevant they are when studying contemporary art from the Middle East - and investigate the ways in which contemporary, so-called 'global', theories impact on the making of art in the region. Drawing on their unique expertise, the book's contributors offer completely new perspectives on the most recent cultural, intellectual and socio-political developments of contemporary art from the Middle East.

Contents:

Trauma, memory and history / Hamid Dabashi

Oblique points of entry / Irit Rogoff

Framing the discipline of contemporary art of the Arab world through the press / Nada Shabout

Mapping Iranian contemporary art publications and knowledge-production / Hamid Severi

The spectre (of knowledge) : recording the vernacular / Shaheen Merali

Education and the teaching of contemporary art from the Middle East / James Allan

The crisis of belonging : on the politics of art practice in contemporary Iran / Hamid Keshmirshekan

A short history of postwar art in Lebanon through the early work of Walid Sadek and Ziad Abillama / Sarah Rogers

Deconstruction and the contemporary arts of Iran : reversal of the hierarchy / Abbas Daneshvari

Introducing art from the Middle East and its diaspora into western institutions : benefits and dilemmas / Fereshteh Daftari

Histories of the present : the changing worlds of Middle Eastern artists / Venetia Porter

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art as a microcosm of the state's cultural agenda / Helia Darabi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-257) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9780755604432

0755604431

9780857725387

0857725386

9780857738462

0857738461

OCLC:

1128166882