Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking - Hardcover

Daftari, Fereshteh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870700855 ISBN 13: 9780870700859

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2006 02 Pages: 112 Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art of New York Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: that origin is increasingly becoming a defining term in the consideration of works by artists such as Mona Hatoum and Shirin Neshat. Resisting any homogenizing impulse. Without Boundary recognizes a need to ask if this art is marked by an Islamic difference. Author and curator Fereshteh Daftari considers issues ranging from the aesthetic legacy of Islamic art to contemporary ideas of identity and faith. Essays by MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry. whose own academic and curatorial background involves traditional Islamic arts; Homi Bhabha. the preeminent theor...

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Synopsis:

Is it possible to speak of a contemporary art with an Islamic difference? This question will be the subject of an exhibition that brings together artists who come from the Islamic world, but who live and work mostly in Europe and the United States. Tapping into certain aesthetic, political and spiritual notions commonly associated with the Islamic world, the book seeks to highlight the nuanced reactions of each individual artist.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0870700855
• ISBN 13: 9780870700859
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112