Dissonant archives : contemporary visual culture and contested narratives in the Middle East

• Tác giả: Anthony Downey
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1784534110
• ISBN-13: 978-1784534110
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 709.560904 Historical, geographic, persons treatment of fine and decorative arts
• Thông tin xuất bản: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
• Mô tả vật lý: 469 pages : , illustrations (some color) ; , 23 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 282130
• Chủ đề: 1. Archives--Philosophy; 2. Art--History--Middle East; 3. Art--History--20th century--Middle East; 4. Art--History--21st century--Middle East; 5. Art archives--Middle East; 6. Art, Middle Eastern--20th century; 7. Art, Middle Eastern--21st century

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events.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