Displacement & Difference: Contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora

£40.95

Fran Lloyd, ed

Series Editor Sajid Rizvi

ISBN 9781872843223

Published in 2001, Displacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora (ISBN 9781872843223) offers the first survey of its kind focused on the work of women artists of Arab heritage based in the Middle East, Europe and North America.

Moving beyond issues of the gaze and the ‘other’, this volume offers new ways of considering the complex interplay between the cultural politics of location, memory, and embodiment through an investigation of the specificities of difference and displacement in the long neglected area of contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora.

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Published in 2001 ( just after 9/11), Displacement and Difference: Contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora (ISBN 9781872843223, limp bound) offered the first survey of its kind of the work of women artists of Arab descent based in the Middle East, Europe and North America. This ground-breaking volume in Saffron Asian Art and Society Series (Series Editor: Sajid Rizvi) brings together artists, curators, critics and scholars from a range of geographies who engage with the multiplicity and diversity of Arab identities imaged by contemporary Arab artists in the diaspora.

The contributors engage with the multiplicity and diversity of Arab identities imaged by contemporary Arab artists in the diaspora. Centring on images produced by artists working in the diasporas of Britain, Palestine and the United States, the authors rethink the processes which constitute ‘belonging’ (and therefore ‘unbelonging’) through gender, geographies, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality; the specificities of different diasporic spaces, and the multiple ways in which shifting and intersecting points of identification are negotiated and re-presented in contemporary visual art practices.

Moving beyond issues of the gaze and the ‘other’ this volume offers new ways of considering the complex interplay between the cultural politics of location, memory, and embodiment through an investigation of the specificities of difference and displacement in the long neglected area of contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora.


Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Images, Diasporas and Difference | Fran Lloyd | 10
2 Internationalism and Art: Re-evaluating the Concepts of Beauty and Individuality | Els van der Plas | 24
3 American-Arab Artists and Multiculturalism in America | Salwa Mikadadi Nashashibi | 32
4 Mobile Identity and the Focal Distance of Memory | Sabiha Khemir | 42
5 Our Bodies, Our Orient and Art | Mai Ghoussoub | 52
6 Palestine Art: Imaging the Motherland | Tina Sherwell | 62
7 Enacting Vision: a Personal Perspectives | Houria Niati | 74
8 Re-Making Ourselves: Art, Memories and Materialities | Fran Lloyd | 81
Artists’ Biographies | 157
Artists’ Bibliographies | 181
Contemporary Arab Art: General Bibliography | 189
List of Illustrations | 197
Notes on Contributors | 201
Index | 203

About the Volume Editor
Fran Lloyd, editor of the volume, was Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University, London at the time of this publication (2001, just after 9/11). Trained as an art historian at the University of Manchester, before and after this edited volume, Lloyd has published widely on contemporary visual culture, as editor of Deconstructing Madonna, Contemporary Arab Women’s Art: Dialogues of the Present, and co-editor of Secret Spaces, Forbidden Places: Rethinking Culture, she is contributing a forthcoming chapter in Feminist Visual Culture. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and difference in contemporary art in Britain and in Japan.

The book brings together artists, curators, critics, and scholars from a range of geographies who engage with the multiplicity and diversity of Arab identities imaged by contemporary Arab artists in the diaspora. Centring on images produced by artists working in the diasporas of Britain, Palestine and the United States, the authors rethink the processes which constitute ‘belonging’ (and therefore ‘unbelonging’) through gender, geographies, race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality; the specificities of different diasporic spaces, and the multiple ways in which shifting and intersecting points of identification are negotiated and re-presented in contemporary visual art practices.

Moving beyond issues of the gaze and the ‘other’, this volume offers new ways of considering the complex interplay between the cultural politics of location, memory, and embodiment through an investigation of the specificities of difference and displacement in the long neglected area of contemporary Arab visual culture in the diaspora.

Publisher, Year and Edition London: Saffron Books, 2001, First Edition
ISBN-13 / ISBN-10 9781872843223 / 1872843220
Series Saffron Asian Art and Society Series | ISSN 1740-3103, Sajid Rizvi, ed
Pages 208
Illustrations 161 (73 in colour), include images of works by cited artists

 

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ISBN-13PB

9781872843223

ISBN-10PB

1872843220

Pages

208

Publisher, Year and Edition

London: Saffron Books, 2001, First Edition

Series

ISSN 1740-3103, Sajid Rizvi, ed, Saffron Asian Art and Society Series

Size: Height [h] x Width [w] x Spine depth [d]

Illustrations

161 (73 in colour)

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