| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Palestinian Art Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Preface; Part I: Foundations; 1. Introduction: Broken Narratives and 'Dis-Orientalism'; 2. The Shadow of the Nakba: Art before 1948; 3. Exile and Memories: Art after 1948; Part II: Earth and Sky; 4. Earth: Sliman Mansour and the Poetics of Sumud; 5. Sky: Kamal Boullata and the Quest for Light; Part III: Body and Home; 6. Mona Hatoum: Nomadic Bodies, Exilic Spaces; 7. Khalil Rabah's Split Self: Black Skin/White Masks; Part IV: Being Arab in Israel; 8. Visual Voices from 'the Interior'; Postscript; References; Bibliography; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
Turmoil and violence have defined the lives of Palestinian people over the last few decades, yet in the midst of the chaos artists live and thrive, creating little-seen work that is a powerful response to their situation. Gannit Ankori's Palestinian Art is the first in-depth English-language assessment of contemporary Palestinian art, and it offers an unprecedented and wholly original overview of this art in all its complexity. Ankori comprehensively traces the full history and development of Palestinian art, from its roots in folk art and traditional Christian and Islamic painting to the pred |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Boullata, Kamal
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Mansour, Sliman
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Art, Palestinian Arab.
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Art, Palestinian Arab
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1306142539 |
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9781306142533 |
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