Mona Hatoum

Name: Mona Hatoum
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Mona Hatoum is a comprehensive exploration of the artist's confronting and influential body of work. Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, Hatoum's career spans various media including video, performance, sculpture, and installation. Her art tackles challenging themes such as violence, oppression, voyeurism, and the human body's vulnerability, juxtaposing beauty with horror and desire with revulsion. This richly illustrated volume features 250 colour images and includes essays by leading scholars and curators, offering deep insights into the theory and practice behind Hatoum's powerful contemporary art.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, particularly those drawn to themes of cultural identity, politics, and the human condition. It suits students, artists, curators, and anyone keen to understand the significant contributions of Mona Hatoum to the global art scene.

Includes eight new essays and a wide range of texts covering both the theory and practice of Hatoum's work. Beautifully designed, with 250 colour images covering the whole of Hatoum's ouevre, this is the essential book on a distinctly powerful voice in contemporary art.

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Born in Beirut to a Palestinian family, artist Mona Hatoum came to Britain as a student in the mid-1970s, settling in London in 1975. Her art—whether video, performance, sculpture, or installation—is concerned with confrontational themes including violence, oppression, and voyeurism, often in reference to the human body; and with the juxtaposition of opposites such as beauty and horror, desire and revulsion.

Hatoum has participated in numerous important group exhibitions, including The Turner Prize and the Venice Biennale. As the winner of the Joan Miró Prize, she held a solo exhibition at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in 2012, and the following year was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Kunstmuseum St Gallen. In 2014, a large survey show of her work was held at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar.

With eight new essays, including an introduction by curator Clarrie Wallis, and a re-published text by renowned Orientalist scholar Edward Said, a wide range of texts cover both the theory and practice of Hatoum's work. Beautifully designed, with 250 colour images covering the whole of Hatoum's oeuvre, this is the essential book on a distinctly powerful voice in contemporary art.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849763608

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 April 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tate Publishing

Illustration: 250 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Christine van Assche

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 247.0mm

Height: 301.0mm

Weight: 1312g

Pages: 196

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Christine Van Assche is chief curator and curator of new media at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Guy Brett is a London-based art critic, curator, and lecturer on art.

Edward Said was a Palestinian American literary theorist who helped found the critical-theory field of postcolonialism.