Text / ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy - Oded Halahmy - Books - State University of New York Press - 9780998207520 - March 15, 2017
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Text / ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy

Oded Halahmy

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Text / ures of Iraq: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Oded Halahmy

Text/ures of Iraq presents work by New York-based sculptor Oded Halahmy, a Jewish native of Baghdad, alongside that of eight contemporary artists from Iraq: Hayder Ali, Amal Alwan, Mohammed al Hamadany, Ismail Khayat, Hanaa Malallah, Hassan Massoudy, Naziha Rashid, and Qasim Sabti. Gathering works that reference Iraq's literary past in an effort to better understand the region's present, the book finds its constituent artists celebrating their country as a pastoral idyll, where people of different beliefs, cultures, and ethnicities peacefully coexisted for centuries, while also mourning the gradual, more recent fraying of Iraqi culture. The layered and abraded surfaces of some of the pieces speak to the persistence of violence, while the picturesqueness of others captures the powerful affective textures of nostalgia and exile.

The book also features examples of modern Arabic and Hebrew calligraphy, including some variants of this form that evoke hurufiyah, an influential modern Arab variant of Lettrism that uses the swoops and curves of the Arabic alphabet as painterly gestures. From abstract collages constructed out of the remains of destroyed books to the Hebrew calligraphy seen in Halahmy's art, these works demonstrate the importance of the literary in Iraqi society, culture, and visual arts of the past and present day.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 15, 2017
ISBN13 9780998207520
Publishers State University of New York Press
Pages 106
Dimensions 203 × 254 × 25 mm   ·   308 g
Language English  

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