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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Finbarr Barry Flood , Kamal BoullataPublisher: Hirmer Verlag Imprint: Hirmer Verlag Weight: 1.680kg ISBN: 9783777432434ISBN 10: 3777432431 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 12 December 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThe book lends itself to several readings and re-readings, in order for the writer to absorb the profound thinking behind Boullata's writings. -- The New Arab Winner-- Palestine Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award There Where You Are Not brings together an impressive collection of texts by Palestinian artist, critic, theorist, poet, and writer Kamal Boullata (1942-2019). . . . Elegantly introduced by Finbarr Barry Flood, the volume is the fruit of a collaboration between Flood and Boullata nurtured by friendship, intellectual exchange, and mutual interests spanning the fields of Islamic and contemporary art. . . . [This collection] offers a much-needed alternative account to traditional art historical narratives and theories of aesthetics by proposing original and decentered approaches to modernism, particularly abstraction. --Nadia Radwan CAA Reviews The book lends itself to several readings and re-readings, in order for the writer to absorb the profound thinking behind Boullata's writings. -- The New Arab Winner-- Palestine Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award There Where You Are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata. . . .is a testament to Boullata's prodigious fifty-year career as a writer who was at once art historian, political activist, cultural critic, translator, poet, and indefatigable advocate for fellow Palestinian and Arab artists. . . . Selected Writings documents Boullata's political journey, and his writings on art and politics provide a compelling retrospective. -- Journal of Palestine Studies There Where You Are Not brings together an impressive collection of texts by Palestinian artist, critic, theorist, poet, and writer Kamal Boullata (1942-2019). . . . Elegantly introduced by Finbarr Barry Flood, the volume is the fruit of a collaboration between Flood and Boullata nurtured by friendship, intellectual exchange, and mutual interests spanning the fields of Islamic and contemporary art. . . . [This collection] offers a much-needed alternative account to traditional art historical narratives and theories of aesthetics by proposing original and decentered approaches to modernism, particularly abstraction. --Nadia Radwan CAA Reviews Winner-- Palestine Book Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award Author Information"Finbarr Barry Flood is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities and the founder and director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories at New York University. His books include Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval ""Hindu-Muslim"" Encounter and The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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