
Displacement and Difference
Contemporary Arab Visual Culture in the Diaspora
Saffron Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. April 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
209 pages
978-1-872843-22-3 (ISBN)
Description
Displacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab Visual Culture in the Diaspora brings together artists, curators, critics, and scholars from a range of geographies who engage with the multiplicity and diversity of Arab identities imaged by contemporary Arab artists in the diaspora. Centring on images produced by artists working in the diasporas of Britain, Palestine and the United States, the authors rethink the processes which constitute 'belonging' (and therefore 'unbelonging') through gender, geographies, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality; the specificities of different diasporic spaces, and the multiple ways in which shifting and intersecting points of identification are negotiated and re-presented in contemporary visual art practices Displacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab Visual Culture in the Diaspora brings together artists, curators, critics, and scholars from a range of geographies who engage with the multiplicity and diversity of Arab identities imaged by contemporary Arab artists in the diaspora.
Centring on images produced by artists working in the diasporas of Britain, Palestine and the United States, the authors rethink the processes which constitute 'belonging' (and therefore 'unbelonging') through gender, geographics, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality; the specificities of different diasporic spaces, and the multiple ways in which shifting and intersecting points of identification are negotiated and re-presented in contemporary visual art practices Moving beyond issues of the gaze and the 'other', this volume offers new ways of considering the complex interplay between the cultural politics of location, memory, and embodiment through an investigation of the specificities of difference and displacement in the long neglected area of contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora
Centring on images produced by artists working in the diasporas of Britain, Palestine and the United States, the authors rethink the processes which constitute 'belonging' (and therefore 'unbelonging') through gender, geographics, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality; the specificities of different diasporic spaces, and the multiple ways in which shifting and intersecting points of identification are negotiated and re-presented in contemporary visual art practices Moving beyond issues of the gaze and the 'other', this volume offers new ways of considering the complex interplay between the cultural politics of location, memory, and embodiment through an investigation of the specificities of difference and displacement in the long neglected area of contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
EAPGROUP
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
161 colour & b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 277 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
1200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-872843-22-3 (9781872843223)
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Persons
Fran Lloyd is Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University, London. Trained as an art historian at the University of Manchester, she has published widely on contemporary visual culture. Editor of Deconstructing Madonna, Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogues of the Present, and co-editor of Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture, she is contributing a forthcoming chapter in Feminist Visual Culture. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and difference in contemporary art in Britain and in Japan
Content
Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Images, Diasporas and Difference. Fran Lloyd. 10 2 Internationalism and Art: Re-evaluating the Concepts of Beauty and Individuality. Els van der Plas. 24 3 American-Arab Artists and Multiculturalism in America. Salwa Mikadadi Nashashibi. 32 4 Mobile Identity and the Focal Distance of Memory. Sabiha Khemir. 42 5 Our Bodies, Our Orient and Art. Mai Ghoussoub. 52 6 Palestine Art: Imaging the Motherland. Tina Sherwell. 62 7 Enacting Vision: a Personal Perspectives. Houria Niati. 74 8 Re-Making Ourselves: Art, Memories and Materialities. Fran Lloyd. 81 Artists' Biographies. 157 Artists' Bibliographies. 181 Contemporary Arab Art: General Bibliography. 189 List of Illustrations. 197 Notes on Contributors. 201 Index. 203