'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.

 

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Onsite

Location code
EX.USA.TAS
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2020

No of pages

256

ISBN / ISSN

9783777434285

No of copies

1

Content type

catalogue

Chapter headings

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

Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s
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