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Poetics of repair : contemporary arts and afterlives of colonial-era mass housing in the Maghreb / Katarzyna Pieprzak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pieprzak, Katarzyna, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--Africa, North.
- Arts and society.
- Arts, North African--Social aspects.
- Arts, North African.
- Arts, North African--Political aspects.
- Public housing--Africa, North--History.
- Public housing.
- Human ecology in art.
- Africa, North--Colonial influence.
- Africa, North.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Poetics of Repair examines contemporary art's engagements with mass housing sites across North Africa and Southern France. Katarzyna Pieprzak turns to photography, video and installation art, poetry, graphic novels, theatre and dance performance to consider what art might be able to help us understand about the modernist and colonial visions that drove mass housing projects, and what that art might help us to repair and reimagine at these sites. The book provides a critical and affective account of art's differential relationship to the architecture, geography, sociality, and, especially, the residents of mass housing projects, and shows how artists illuminate hidden connective fibers and transform relationships between built environments and the people and histories they shape"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Mass housing, Maghrebi art, and the poetics of repair
- Sonic repairs to the grid : art engages the epistemology of Hay Mohammadi, Casablanca
- Affecting relation in Climat de France, Algiers : decolonial poetics and embodied ethics of recognition
- Remembering and repairing women's homes : Nanterre, Bidonville de la Folie
- Touching feet and moving hands : art's repair from affective gesture to capacious home.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Pieprzak, Katarzyna. Poetics of repair.
- ISBN:
- 9781478060277
- 1478060271
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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