Walid Raad
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0870709739 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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French edition Midway Art Beware buyers this edition is French regardless of what the seller's have listed as the language here and elsewhere. We have purchased +three copies with the 978-0-85488-190-1 ISBN and they are exclusively French, minus the English title on the cover page. Likely, the item listed
A special contribution by Raad presents a fictional interview with multiple artists, curators and writers.Walid Raad was born in 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon, and moved to Beirut as a child. Essays by scholars place Raad's art in the context of contemporary photography and video, as well as art made in Lebanon since the 1960s; provide an overview of Raad's performance lectures; and examine Raad's most recent bodies of work made in the Islamic galleries at the Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, which explore the history, collecting and display of historical and modern art and artifacts from the Arab world and Iran. Raad explores the ways we represent war and history, casting doubt on the veracity of photographic and video documentation. Lebanese artist Walid Raad is an influential voice in art from the Middle East. In 1983, at age 16, Raad left Lebanon for the US. He enrolled at the Rochester Institute of Technology to study photography, and earned his PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. Raad currently lives in New York and Beirut, and has been an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union since 2002.. Published for h
Professor of Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.. Eva Respini is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and former Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.Stuart Comer is the Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA.Barry Flood is the William R. Kenan
(Christopher Lyon Bookforum) . Walid Raadmakes elaborate artistic fictions with a wry and whimsical sense of humor delivered in a deadpan style worthy of Borges