Imperfect chronology :  Arab art from the modern to the contemporary : works from the Barjeel Art Foundation / 
 Arab art from the modern to the contemporary : works from the Barjeel Art Foundation 
edited by Omar Kholeif with Candy Stobbs. 
 - 272 pages :  illustrations (chiefly color) ;  28 cm 
<br/><br/> Catalog of an exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in four installments between September 8, 2015 and January 8, 2017.  List of artists: Shafic Abboud, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Etel Adnan, Manal Al Dowayan, Munira Al-Kazi, Sophia Al-Maria, Abdul Qader Al Rais, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Sadik Alfraji, Ahmad Nashaat Alzuaby, Marwa Arsanios, Ragheb Ayad, Dia Azzawi, Marwan Kassab Bachi (Marwan), Tayseer Barakat, Yto Barrada, Farid Belkahia, Abdallah Benanteur, Kamal Boullata, Huguette Caland, Ahmed Cherkaoui, Ali Cherri, Ervand Demerdjian, Inji Efflatoun, Abdul Hadi El-Gazzar, Ibrahim El Salahi, Hamed Ewais, GCC Collective, Khalil Gibran, Abdelkader Guermaz, Paul Guiragossian, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Mona Hatoum, Kadhim Hayder, Susan Hefuna, Khaled Hourani, Jafar Islah, Ibrahim Ismail, Iman Issa, Mohammed Issiakhem, Youssef Kamel, Mohammed Kazem, Miloud Labeid, Maha Maamoun, Basim Magdy, Jumana Manna, Suleiman Mansour, Fateh Moudarres, Hamed Nada, Effat Nagi, Walid Raad, Samir Rafi, Michael Rakowitz, Mohammed Sabry, Mahmoud Said, Zineb Sedira, Jewad Selim, Walid Shami, Hassan Sharif, Hussein Shariffe, Ahmed Shibrain, Akram Zaatari, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /  The Arab world :  a sum of its parts /  Tracing routes :  debating Modernism, mapping the contemporary /  Notes on verbal dominance and visual expression in Arab culture /  The exhibition and the Agora :  contemporary Arab representations (2001-07) /  Collecting modern Iraqi art /  Egypt at the Venice Biennale :  1967 and the year that changed everything /  Be still my beating heart part 1 :  a fugue in fictional art history /  A speculative reading of Al-Wahesh wal miskeen by Fateh Moudarres /  The Middle East and South Asia :  aesthetic mobilities /  Extracts from The Arab apocalypse /  Debating Modernism I --  Debating Modernism II --  Mapping the contemporary I --  Mapping the contemporary II.  Iwona Blazwick --  Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi --  Omar Kholeif --  Kamal Boullata --  Edward McDonald-Toone --  Nada Shabout --  Gilane Tawadros --  Rasha Salti --  Rasha Salti --  Iftikhar Dadi --  Etel Adnan -- 
<br/><br/> Celebrating the Barjeel Art Foundation's expansive collection, this book maps a genealogy from modern to contemporary Arab art and offers one of the most extensive presentations of modern Arab art in print. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783791354859 379135485X 9783791366302 3791366300 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2015510730 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Barjeel Art Foundation--Exhibitions.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art, Arab--20th century--Exhibitions.<br/>Art, Arab--21st century--Exhibitions.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N7265.3  / .I47 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.1/74927/0745357