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Text/ures of Iraq

Text/ures of Iraq


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About the Book

This exhibition gathers works that reference Iraq's literary past in an effort to better understand the region's present. 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. Text/ures of Iraq 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 exhibition 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 the present day.


About the Author:

Oded Halahmy currently lives in New York City and Old Jaffa, Israel. His sculptures are in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, as well as many other public and private collections worldwide.

Sara J. Pasti is the Neil C. Trager Director of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

Murtazi Vali is a critic and curator based in Sharjah, UAE and Brooklyn. He regularly publishes in international art periodicals and has contributed to publications for both commercial galleries and nonprofit institutions around the world. He is a visiting instructor at Pratt Institute and a lead tutor of Campus Art Dubai 5.0. Ursula Morgan is the Coordinator of Exhibitions and Programs of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at the State University of New York at New Paltz.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780998207544
  • Publisher: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
  • Publisher Imprint: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Series Title: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
  • Sub Title: Contemporary Art from the Collections of Oded Halahmy
  • Width: 203 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0998207543
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 598 gr


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