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40 years ago, Jeddah mayor Mohamed Said Farsi transformed his city
through an urban development scheme that placed contemporary art at
its core. This was public art on a grand scale, designed 'to bring
delight to the citizen, to give a sense of wonder and stir a sense
of history'. Works were commissioned from the world's greatest
sculptors and this book documents the restoration and relocation of
some 26 major works to a new Open Air Museum. It allows the world a
unique glimpse into a city not easily visited and shows Saudi
Arabia as a place of vision and innovation in art.
Mohamed Said Farsi became Mayor of Jeddah in 1972 and rejuvenated
the city with public art at its heart. The resulting--and
unprecedented--urban landscape is now enriched by a diversity of
works from world-famous artists, such as Arp, Cesar, Calder,
Lipschitz, Miro, Moore, Pomodoro, and Vasarely, as well as regional
artists including Salah Abdulkarim and Shafiq Mazloum. This book
shows Saudi Arabia as a place of artistic vision and innovation and
allows a glimpse into a city not easily visited. Jeddah has grown
since 1972 and now some 53 major pieces are being restored and
relocated to the sea front, known as the Corniche.
Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010) was a German film and theatre
director, actor, artist and author. Starting as an independent
underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging
productions for theatres and festivals, which often were
accompanied by public controversies. Edited by his friends and
associates Klaus Biesenbach, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Aino Laberenz
and Susanne Pfeffer, "Christoph Schlingensief" is an overview of
the artist's works that includes over 500 pages of photographs from
Schlingensief's films, plays and projects. In the preface the
publication, the editors write: "Just how far ahead of his time
Christoph Schlingensief was with regard to artistic, political and
social themes and subjects is evident only in retrospect ... He
still challenges and overwhelms viewers with his overflowing
images, his deliberate confusion of fact and imagination, and the
sociopolitical volatility of the issues he tackles."
Dutch international cultural policy is unusually generous, an
international exemplar. And it has recently become the subject of
heated debate at home. Though there are no plans to cut back, there
are questions: the government's primary role has been providing
favorable conditions for a highly varied collection of individual
artists and arts institutions. Should a firmer hand be taken?
Should the policy be more results-oriented? Should political,
economic or societal considerations be involved or is culture an
independent sphere of public duty? In "All That Dutch," art
professionals, academics and policy-makers--including Aaron
Betsky--share their insights and views on this subject along four
themes: culture and politics, culture and the economy,
international reflection and cultural profiling. PLUS: the design
of this reader is very cool: each essay comes with a 4 x 6 inch
four-page artists' illustration booklet bound in--and it actually
works.
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