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Text/ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy

Text/ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy

Halahmy, Oded
Pasti, Sara J.
Vali, Murtazi

Hardcover

Series: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

General ArtMiddle Eastern Art

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ISBN10: 0998207543
ISBN13: 9780998207544
Publisher: Distribution Partners
Published: Mar 15 2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.44 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Presents work by Halahmy and eight other contemporary artists from Iraq: Hayder Ali, Amal Alwan, Mohammed al Hamadany, Ismail Khayat, Hanaa Malallah, Hassan Massoudy, Naziha Rashid, and Qasim Sabti.

Text/ures of Iraq presents work by New York-based sculptor Oded Halahmy, a Jewish native of Baghdad, alongside that of eight contemporary artists from Iraq: Hayder Ali, Amal Alwan, Mohammed al Hamadany, Ismail Khayat, Hanaa Malallah, Hassan Massoudy, Naziha Rashid, and Qasim Sabti. Gathering works that reference Iraq's literary past in an effort to better understand the region's present, the book finds its constituent artists celebrating their country as a pastoral idyll, where people of different beliefs, cultures, and ethnicities peacefully coexisted for centuries, while also mourning the gradual, more recent fraying of Iraqi culture. The layered and abraded surfaces of some of the pieces speak to the persistence of violence, while the picturesqueness of others captures the powerful affective textures of nostalgia and exile.

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