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A showcase of 500 highlights of the Farjam Collection, featuring
painting, works on paper, photography, sculpture, installations,
and videos  The Farjam Collection of Islamic, and Modern and
Contemporary Middle Eastern art, comprising over 5,000 artworks
owned by Dr Farhad Farjam, is a major collection well known in the
Middle East and to the cognoscenti, but which has remained
unpublished until now. This volume examines around 500 highlights
from the Farjam Collection of Modern and Contemporary art from the
Arab and Iranian worlds. Showcased with high-quality photography
throughout, the expansive collection encompasses a wide variety of
media, including painting, works on paper, photography, sculpture,
installations, and videos. It features numerous treasures from
across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including works by
modern and contemporary artists such Dia al-Azzawi, Hassan Sharif,
Mohamed Melehi, Bahman Mohassess, Hussein Bicar, Kadhim Haidar,
Baya Mahieddine, Ayman Baalbaki, Rashid Rana, Fahrelnissa Zeid,
Farhad Moshiri, Dana Awartani, Mounir Fatmi, Shezad Dawood, Mona
Saudi, Susan Hefuna, Shirin Neshat, Mahmoud Said, and Sohrab
Sepehri. Â Bringing together historians, critics, and
curators from around the globe to reflect on these works, through
essays, entries, and interviews with leading artists, this volume
demonstrates how this extraordinary collection highlights important
trends and histories of modern and contemporary art of the Arab
world, Iran, Turkey, and beyond.
An introduction to a previously unpublished major collection of
Islamic, Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern art, notable for
its exceptional range and breadth from earliest times to the
present  The Farjam Collection of Islamic, and Modern and
Contemporary Middle Eastern art, comprising over 5,000 artworks, is
well known in the Middle East and to the cognoscenti but has
remained unpublished until now. This two-volume publication
comprises over 800 highlights from the collection, introducing it
as a major resource for scholars, students, and bibliophiles.
Unusual amongst collections of Islamic art, the exceptional range
and breadth of this collection includes the arts of the Islamic
world from earliest times up to and including the contemporary
Middle East. This unique characteristic, represented across the
themes of the two volumes, provides an unusual cross-cultural
experience demonstrating continuity, dialogue, and
influences—from within as well as in between the
cultures—throughout centuries. Organized thematically with
high-quality photography throughout, the book reflects current
trends in the study of Islamic and Contemporary art through essays
and entries written by eminent scholars.
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Suad Al-Attar (Hardcover)
Nesma Shubber; Artworks by Suad Al-Attar; Foreword by Venetia Porter
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R927
Discovery Miles 9 270
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Suad Al-Attar is an extensively illustrated monograph featuring
original photography of more than 100 expressive and surrealistic
paintings and drawings by one of Iraq's most renowned artists.
Written by the artist's granddaughter - writer and art historian
Nesma Shubber - the book offers unique access to the career of a
truly sensational artist and painter. In beautifully written prose,
Shubber tells the story of her grandmother's life and work.
Beginning with the artist's early formative years in Baghdad and
her arrival in London in 1976, we discover the origins of
Al-Attar's international career up to the present day in a personal
account of an extraordinary woman and artist. For the first time,
this book brings together treasured drawings and paintings
carefully selected from the artist's archive to form the most
comprehensive published collection of work by Suad Al-Attar as well
as a rare document of her remarkable life.
The first and only book on one of the finest private collections of
contemporary Iranian art This sumptuous volume features almost 250
contemporary artworks and a selection of medieval and early modern
Islamic art - the heralded collection of Mohammed Afkhami, a
prominent player at the cultural and regional front line of Middle
Eastern art. Honar (meaning 'art' in Farsi, the language of Iran),
includes works ranging from the disturbingly subversive to
exquisitely inclusive, exhibiting the pain of exile, the querying
of ideology, and the artistic insistence on personal independence.
This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the
history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day.
Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and
thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it
provides an illuminating insight into the material culture produced
from West Africa to Southeast Asia through art and artefacts,
people and places. From pre-Islamic works that provided a
foundation for the arts of Islam to masterpieces produced under the
great empires and objects that continue to be made today, this
expansive survey traces the development of civilizations at the
forefront of philosophical and scientific ideas, artistic and
literary developments, and technological innovations, exploring a
wealth of cultural treasures along the way. Texts are accompanied
by a wide variety of objects, including architectural decoration,
ceramics, jewellery, metalwork, calligraphy, textiles, musical
instruments, coins, illustrated manuscripts, and modern and
contemporary art, all of which shed new light on the Islamic world
both past and present. This book will inspire and inform anyone
interested in one of the most influential and diverse cultures of
the world.
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