There Where You Are Not: Selected Writings by Kamal Boullata

Name: There Where You Are Not: Selected Writings by Kamal Boullata
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783777432434
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By Finbarr Barry Flood

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There Where You Are Not gathers the writings of Kamal Boullata, a renowned Palestinian artist and theorist, spanning four decades of exile across Europe, North Africa, and the United States. These essays, many newly translated into English, address themes of exile, resistance, identity, and the intersections of aesthetics, history, and politics within modern Arab art. Topics range from autobiography and gender relations to language, visual culture, and globalisation.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, Middle Eastern culture, political activism through art, and modernist theory, as well as scholars of Arab history and aesthetics.

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There Where You Are Not brings together the writings of celebrated Palestinian artist and theorist Kamal Boullata (b. 1942). Produced over four decades of exile in Europe, North Africa, and the United States, many are translated into English or published for the first time.

The experience of exile and imperatives of resistance permeate the essays, whose subjects range from autobiography to contemporary art, early ruminations on gender relations, language and the visual, to questions of identity and globalisation. Taken collectively, they explore intersections between aesthetics, history, and politics that are central to the historiography of modern Arab art.

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Journal of Palestine Studies hails the collection as a testament to Boullata's diverse fifty-year career as an art historian, political activist, cultural critic, translator, poet, and advocate for Palestinian and Arab artists. It offers a compelling retrospective of his political and artistic journey. CAA Reviews praises the volume, with an introduction by Finbarr Barry Flood, as an important alternative to conventional art historical narratives, presenting innovative approaches to modernism and abstraction.

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ISBN: 9783777432434

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 12 December 2019

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 80 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

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Width: 170.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 1680g

Pages: 448

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About the Author

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.

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