Imperfect chronology
Subtitle: Arab art from the modern to the contemporary : works from the Barjeel Art Foundation
By: edited by Omar Kholeif with Candy Stobbs
Contributors: Barjeel Art Foundation; Whitechapel Art Gallery
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783791354859
Subjects: Arab Art; Exhibitions; Barjeel Art Foundation
Other titles: Arab art from the modern to the contemporary : works from the Barjeel Art Foundation
Description: Celebrating the Barjeel Art Foundation's expansive collection, this book maps a genealogy from modern to contemporary Arab art and offers one of the most extensive presentations of modern Arab art in print.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in four installments between September 8, 2015 and January 8, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Iwona Blazwick; title: The Arab World: A sum of its parts / Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi; title: Tracing routes: Debating Modernism, mapping the contemporary / Omar Kholeif.; title: Notes on verbal dominance and visual expression in Arab culture / Kamal Boullata; title: The exhibition and the Agora: Contemporary Arab Representations (2001-07) / Edward McDonald-Toone; title: Collecting modern Iraqi Art / Nada Shabout; title: Egypt at the Venice Biennale: 1967 and The Year That Changed Everything / Gilane Tawadros; title: Be Still My Beating Heart Part 1: A fugue in fictional art history / Rasha Salti; title: A speculative reading of Al-Wahesh wal Miskeen by Fateh Moudarres / Rasha Salti; title: The Middle East and South Asia: Aesthetic mobilities / Iftikhar Dadi; title: Extracts from The Arab Apocalypse / Etel Adnan; title: Debating Modernism I; title: Debating Modernism II; title: Mapping the Contemporary I; title: Mapping the Contemporary II.; title: Timeline; title: Artists' biographies; title: Authors' biographies; title: List of works.