
Partisans of the Nude
An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920-1960
Kirsten L. Scheid(Editor)
Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 7. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-884919-37-4 (ISBN)
Description
Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
University of Washington Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
95 illstrations; 92 color and 3 b&w
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-884919-37-4 (9781884919374)
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Kirsten L. Scheid is the curator of the exhibition Partisans of the Nude held at the Wallach Art Gallery from October 6, 2023 through January 14, 2023. She is a Professor of Anthropology and Art Studies at the American University of Beirut and researches the anthropology of modern and contemporary Arab art, imaginations/ontologies, de/coloniality, materiality, gender, Islam, art theory and historiography, and cross-cultural art junctures. Recent publications include Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950, (Indiana University Press, 2022) and "Palestinian Art Talk: A Local Lexicon for Global Art Production," in In Motion: The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement(Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2022). Scheid co-curated The Arab Nude: The Artist as Awakener (American University of Beirut, 2016), the ninth edition of the Jerusalem show Jerusalem: Actual and Possible, (Al Ma'mal, Jerusalem, 2018), and Historical Modernisms (ArteEast's Virtual Gallery, 2008). She is also co-founder of the Anthropology Society in Lebanon (ASIL) in Beirut (since 2006) and co-founder of a cultural resource center and an Arabic children's book line Hikayat Walad min Bayrut (Stories of a Child from Beirut, 2004).
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Foreword