Dissonant Archives : Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East / Anthony Downey.

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Downey, Anthony [author.]

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TextSeries: Visual culture in the Middle East series ; 2Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 2015Edition: 1stDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780857739735
0857739735

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

709.560904 23

LOC classification:

N7265 .D57 2015

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Summary: Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events.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.

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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Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events.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.

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