Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art

Arabicity reflects on four decades of the aesthetic, conceptual, and socio-political concerns of contemporary Arab artists. Beautifully produced, it features over 200 artworks by 50 Arab artists including Bahia Shehab, Ayman Baalbaki, Hassan Hajjaj, and Raeda Saadeh, who explore their cultural heritage, and themes such as memory, destruction, and conflict, with great warmth, humour and visual poetry.

Whether through video art, painting, photography or installation, these artists challenge the confines of their identity, resist stereotyping, and reshape the parameters of their cultural traditions. In their diverse media and subject matter, their works reflect the pulse of the region. In chaos they discover what endures.

Author: Rose Issa
Publisher: Saqi Books
Published: 09/24/2019
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.70w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780863566882
ISBN10: 086356688X
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Middle Eastern
- Art | History | Contemporary (1945- )
- Art | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions | General