Art in Iraq today /

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Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:Milano : Skira, 2011.
Description:416 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Arabic
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8743419
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Varying Form of Title:Fann fī al-ʻIrāq al-yawm
Other authors / contributors:ʻAzzāwī, Ḍiyā'.
Pocock, Charles.
Fārūqī, Samar.
ISBN:9788857211572
8857211576
Notes:"Co-published with Meem Gallery, Dubai, UAE"--T.p. verso.
"An outgrowth of Meem Gallery's Art in Iraq today exhibition series (2010-11)"--P. [5].
Includes bibliographical references.
English and Arabic.
Table of Contents:
  • Art in Iraq today / Jabra I. Jabra
  • Absence and presence in the work of three Iraqi artists: Modhir Ahmed, Nedim Kufi and Hanaa Malallah / May Muzaffar
  • Painters of critical moments: Ghassan Ghaib, Kareem Risan and Nazar Yahya / Farouk Yousif
  • In lieu of the sublime: Himat M. Ali, Amar Dawod and Delair Shaker / Nada M. Shabout
  • Reconfiguring identity in modern Iraqi art: Dia Al-Azzawi, Rafa Al-Nasiri and Ali Talib / Samar Faruqi
  • The conceptual displacement of place: Ali Jabbar, Halim Al-Karim and Mahmoud Obaidi / Georges H. Rabbath
  • Art as a "psychological outlet": expatriation and the work of contemporary Iraqi artists / Samar Faruqi
  • Modhir Ahmed
  • Himat M. Ali
  • Dia Al-Azzawi
  • Ahmed Al-Bahrani
  • Amar Dawod
  • Ghassan Ghaib
  • Ali Jabbar
  • Halim Al-Karim
  • Nedim Kufi
  • Hanaa Malallah
  • Rafa Al-Nasiri
  • Mahmoud Obaidi
  • Kareem Risan
  • Delair Shaker
  • Ali Talib
  • Nazar Yahya.