'Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s investigates the development of abstraction in West Asia and North Africa via paintings, sculpture, and drawings made during a period of rapid industrialization, several wars and mass migrations, new state formations, and the rise and fall of Arab nationalism(s). Examining how a diverse group of artists mined the region's rich artistic heritage as well as the expressive capacities of line, colour, and texture, this book highlights various abstract practices that arose in the Arab world and its diaspora in the mid-20th century. Alongside vibrant images of nearly ninety works—all drawn from the remarkable collection of the Barjeel Foundation, based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates—Taking Shape features nine essays by leading scholars who are rethinking art-historical canons and expanding discourses around global modernism.' - from the back cover
Includes artists' biographies and a bibliography.
Onsite
Lynn GUMPERT, 
English
group exhibition,  touring exhibition,  West Asia,  Arab World,  abstraction,  calligraphy,  Calligraphic Abstraction,  modernism,  art history
2020
256
9783777434285
1
catalogue
Foreword
- Lynn GUMPERT
Introduction: "No Longer a Horizon, but Infinity"
- Suheyla TAKESH
Recollections: Women and Abstraction in the Arab World, 1960–1990
- Salwa D. MIKDADI
Mediating Abstraction Through the Arabic Letter
- Nada SHABOUT
Abstraction in the Arab World
- Iftikhar DADI
When Identity Becomes "Form": Calligraphic Abstraction and Sudanese Modernism
- Salah M. HASSAN
Abstracted: Land for Art in Lebanon
- Kaelen WILSON-GOLDIE
Abstract Anxieties and Algerian Abstraction
- Hannah J.L. FELDMAN
Toward Abstraction: The Case of Kuwait in the 1960s
- Sultan Sooud AL-QASSEMI
Abstraction of the Many? Finding Plenitude in Arab Painting
- Anneka LENSSEN
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