Dissonant Archives : Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East /
Downey, Anthony,
Dissonant Archives : Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East / Anthony Downey. - 1st. - 1 online resource (304 pages). - Visual culture in the Middle East series ; 2 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial element in these processes: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, is also concerned with determining the future. This feature of the archive has gained considerable urgency in modern-day North Africa and the Middle East where it has come to the fore as a site of social, historical, theoretical, and political contestation. Dissonant Archives is the first book to consider the ways in which contemporary artists, in exploring archival contexts and structures, foreground a systemic and perhaps irrevocable crisis in institutional and state-ordained archiving across the region.
9780857739735 (EPUB) 0857739735 (EPUB)
9780857739735 Ingram Content Group
1900-2099
Art, Middle Eastern--20th century.
Art, Middle Eastern--21st century.
Art--History--Middle East--20th century.
Art--History--Middle East--21st century.
Archives--Philosophy.
Art moyen-oriental--20e siècle.
Art moyen-oriental--21e siècle.
Archives--Philosophie.
History of art / art & design styles.
ART--History--General.
Art.
Art, Middle Eastern.
Middle East.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
N7265 / .D57 2015
709.560904
Dissonant Archives : Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East / Anthony Downey. - 1st. - 1 online resource (304 pages). - Visual culture in the Middle East series ; 2 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial element in these processes: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, is also concerned with determining the future. This feature of the archive has gained considerable urgency in modern-day North Africa and the Middle East where it has come to the fore as a site of social, historical, theoretical, and political contestation. Dissonant Archives is the first book to consider the ways in which contemporary artists, in exploring archival contexts and structures, foreground a systemic and perhaps irrevocable crisis in institutional and state-ordained archiving across the region.
9780857739735 (EPUB) 0857739735 (EPUB)
9780857739735 Ingram Content Group
1900-2099
Art, Middle Eastern--20th century.
Art, Middle Eastern--21st century.
Art--History--Middle East--20th century.
Art--History--Middle East--21st century.
Archives--Philosophy.
Art moyen-oriental--20e siècle.
Art moyen-oriental--21e siècle.
Archives--Philosophie.
History of art / art & design styles.
ART--History--General.
Art.
Art, Middle Eastern.
Middle East.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
N7265 / .D57 2015
709.560904