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A vision for my father : the life & work of the Palestinian-American artist & designer Rajie Cook / [by Rajie Cook].
LIBRA N6537.C6563 A2 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Rajie, 1930-2021, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cook, Rajie, 1930-2021.
- Cook, Rajie.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- Palestinian American artists--Biography.
- Palestinian American artists.
- Graphic artists.
- Palestinian Americans.
- Themes, motives.
- United States.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Pictorial works
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- illustration
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, MA : Olive Branch Press, An Imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc., 2018.
- Summary:
- "Rajie Cook is the son of Palestinian immigrants Najeeb and Jaleela Cook who came to the US in search of peace and opportunity for themselves and their family. This memoir is a tribute to them, but evolves into a narrative of how their son made his mark on the international stage of graphic design. For Rajie, art is an organic expression of what moves him, his art activism is his gift to the world. Sight, what we see and what we think we see, is a major theme in this narrative. On one level, Rajie gives sight back to his father who was blinded in the early 1930's by the ravages of cataract. He died before "seeing" his talented son shake the hand of an American president. Now, using his art as his voice, his camera as a partner, Rajie has lifted the veil of what people see or think they see with regard to the Palestinian people. Some of his photographs are disturbing, his experiences equally unsettling because Rajie narrates the truth as he sees it. The pain of the Palestinian people cries out though Rajie's art and activism--the horror of the Occupation, the brutality of life that Palestinian children experience every day. Rajie wants the world to see what he has seen, and like his father before him, yearns for peace to come to this troubled and tortured region. Provocative yet truthful, Rajie's vision is recorded in his art."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Quote: Brecht
- I remember my dad
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction.
- Part one. The roots
- Najeeb's odyssey
- Formative years
- Memories
- Learning years
- The real world
- Spreading my wings
- A dream realized
- The artist and the bees
- Historic preservation
- If only
- Question.
- Part two. The olive tree
- Drawn to the Middle East
- The connection begins
- Intervening years
- Facts on the ground
- Witnesses to struggle
- Introducing the Middle East
- Pastports
- My art, my voice
- The rewards of art
- Epitome of immunity
- Gallery: the human condition
- Quote: Norman Lear.
- ISBN:
- 9781566560320
- 1566560322
- OCLC:
- 993097862
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