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Author: Zainab Bahrani
Publisher: Wallach Art Gallery
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe catalogue makes clear, there are several reasons Iraq's modern tradition remains little known abroad. As a corrective the catalogue offers an unprecedented overview of the work of several generations of Iraqi artists, from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
Author: Sandy Isenstadt
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0295800305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and on to present-day Iraq, the essays cohere around the historical encounter between the politics of nation-building and architectural modernism's new materials, methods, and motives. Architecture, as physical infrastructure and as symbolic expression, provides an exceptional window onto the powerful forces that shaped the modern Middle East and that continue to dominate it today. Experts in this volume demonstrate the political dimensions of both creating the built environment and, subsequently, inhabiting it. In revealing the tensions between achieving both international relevance and regional meaning, Modernism in the Middle East affords a dynamic view of the ongoing confrontations of deep traditions with rapid modernization. Political and cultural historians, as well as architects and urban planners, will find fresh material here on a range of diverse practices.
Author: Fatima Agha Al-Hayani
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Outka
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0231546319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic death tolls, the pandemic faded from historical and cultural memory in the United States and throughout Europe, overshadowed by World War One and the turmoil of the interwar period. In Viral Modernism, Elizabeth Outka reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for the pandemic’s hidden but widespread presence. She investigates the miasmic manifestations of the pandemic and its spectral dead in interwar Anglo-American literature, uncovering the traces of an outbreak that brought a nonhuman, invisible horror into every community. Viral Modernism examines how literature and culture represented the virus’s deathly fecundity, as writers wrestled with the scope of mass death in the domestic sphere amid fears of wider social collapse. Outka analyzes overt treatments of the pandemic by authors like Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe and its subtle presence in works by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats. She uncovers links to the disease in popular culture, from early zombie resurrection to the resurgence of spiritualism. Viral Modernism brings the pandemic to the center of the era, revealing a vast tragedy that has hidden in plain sight.
Author: Farah Zeynep Aksoy
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this thesis, I contextualize the monument, Nasb al-Hurriya (1959-61) by Jewad Selim within the larger discourse of the concept of synthesis of the arts, while considering socio-political atmosphere after the Revolution of 1958 in Iraq and the modernization efforts taking place across the country. My contribution with this thesis is a reconsideration of Nasb al-Hurriya such that it places Selim in a dialogue with this synthesis of the arts discourse, and shows how Selim manipulates different media and signs to yield a very different version of the synthesis than the one advocated in Europe. This study defines Jewad Selim' s art in the category of wall painting as a surface not limited to a mural nor the canvas in the traditional sense; but as an extension of the public sphere and the street with universal symbols swirling in the first Cold War context. In this thesis, along with Nasb al-Hurriya, I analyze the wall paintings, Al-Banna' (1944), Pastoral (c.l955), Man and Earth (1956) and Baghdadiat (1956) by Selim. Fundamentally, I utilize the wall paintings by Selim as a way of understanding, the role of works of art in constituting social and political ideas about what it means to be both modem and Iraqi as a postcolonial but young republic. I purpose that Selim's wall paintings should not be understood as representations of a modernizing society or as mediations of an emulated West but as experiments that have been part of the creation of the modern nation-state called Iraq.
Author: James McElvenny
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-01-09
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1474425046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889 - 1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.
Author: Mark Goble
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010-11-02
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0231518404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsidering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Agee, and William Carlos Williams, alongside film, painting, music, and popular culture, Mark Goble explores the development of American modernism as it was shaped by its response to technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate. Goble's original readings reinterpret the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century, when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. He follows the assimilation of such "old" media technologies as the telegraph, telephone, and phonograph and their role in inspiring fantasies of connection, which informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology, Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating. The "mediated life" puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceive the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another, and therefore to the world and to their own modernity.
Author: Jessica Berman
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0231149514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModernism has long been characterized as more concerned with aesthetics than politics, but Jessica Berman argues that modernist narrative bridges the gap between ethics and politics, connecting ethical attitudes and responsibilities—ideas about what we ought to be and do—to active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges the divisions usually drawn between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement undergirds modernisms worldwide and that it is strengthened rather than hindered by formal experimentation.
Author: Elizabeth F. Evans
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1108479812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals how changing ideas about gender and race shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature.
Author: Steve Mumford
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
Published: 2005-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781896597904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn explosive conflict, as seen through the eyes of a war artist. Bagdad Journal is the outstanding culmination of four voyages to war-torn Iraq by artist Steve Mumford. In the long tradition of war artists, particularly Winslow Homer's work for Harper's Magazine, Mumford meticulously documents the everyday scenes of Iraq in bold, breathtaking watercolors and drawings and paints a human side of the war that can be lost in the immediacy of photographic and broadcast images. Not overtly political, Bagdad Journal presents portraits of life from all sides of the polarizing conflict. With sketch pad and notebook in hand, Mumford illuminates the routine activities of a nation in turmoil-from the individual soldiers of American platoons to Baghdad residents going about their daily lives amid the chaos surrounding them. There will be a traveling exhibit of artwork from Baghdad Journal and presentations by Mumford on his Iraq experience in conjunction with the publication of this book.
