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Iridescent Kuwait - Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Iridescent Kuwait - Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of
Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources
of climate change. The book investigates petroleum's role in the
visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies
of modernization, political representation, and oil. The notion of
iridescence, the ambiguous yet mesmerizing effect of a rainbowlike
color play, serves as analytical-aesthetic concept to discuss
petroleum's ambiguous contribution to modernity: both promise of
prosperity and destructive force of socio-cultural and ecological
environments. Covering a broad spectrum of historical material from
aerial and color photography, visual arts, postage stamps, and
master plans to architecture and also contemporary art from the
Gulf, it dismantles petro- modernity's visual legacy.
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