Helen Khal : Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s / edited by Carla Chammas, Rachel Dedman, and Omar Kholeif ; [foreword by Christine Tohmé].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ṭuʻmah, Kirīstīn, author of foreword.

Contributor:

Chammas, Carla, editor.

Dedman, Rachel, editor.

Kholeif, Omar, editor.

Matḥaf Sursuq, host institution.

Charles Wendell David Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Khal, Helen.

Art galleries, Commercial--Lebanon.

Art galleries, Commercial.

Artists--Lebanon--20th century--History.

Artists.

Art, Lebanese--20th century--History.

Art, Lebanese.

Lebanon.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : Sternberg Press, [2023]

Summary:

Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s is a reflective exhibition catalogue; part archive, as well as a living testament to the late Helen Khal (1923-2009). A polymath, an artist, educator, and writer, Khal was also the co-founder of Gallery One, the first modern and contemporary art gallery in Lebanon, which opened its doors to the public in Beirut, in 1963. The catalogue follows on from an exhibition initiated by Carla Chammas and curated by Chammas and Rachel Dedman as part of "Home Works 8: A Forum on Cultural Practices", opening its doors at the Sursock Museum, Beirut in October 2019. The exhibition, like the catalogue, detailed Helen's life and practice as a catalytic lens through which to explore the work of a group of artists whom she was close to, in life and in art, including: Chafic Abboud, Yvette Achkar, Etel Adnan, Huguette Caland, Simone Fattal, Farid Haddad, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Aref El Rayess, and Dorothy Salhab-Kazemi. From here, the publication seeks to address the exhibition's themes of love, sex, and motherhood, the relationship between visual art and the literary landscape of 1960s and 1970s Beirut, and the galleries and studios in which public collaborations and private kinships were forged. Taking an intimate approach to a fabled period, Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s, unfolds a rich picture of the friendships, connections, modes of exchange, common concerns, and differing approaches of some of the best-known and least-remembered artists of the mid-twentieth century in Lebanon.

Contents:

Prologue / Carla Chammas

Foreword / Christine Tohmé

Helen Khal: friendship and worldbuilding, part 1

The journey of an exhibition: a beginning / Carla Chammas

The exhibition "At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance"

In detail: At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance / Rachel Dedman

Helen Khal: friendship and worldbuilding, part 2

All things unsettled, remain / Omar Kholeif

Biographies

Acknowledgments / Carla Chammas

Afterword Helen Khal: energy, painting, and worldbuilding / Omar Kholeif.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibiton "At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance," curated by Carla Chammas and Rachel Dedman, Sursock Museum, Beirut.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles Wendell David Library Fund.

Contains:

At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance

ISBN:

1915609216

9781915609212

OCLC:

1378930533