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Maliheh Afnan : traces, faces and places

Title: Maliheh Afnan : traces, faces and places / foreword by John Berger ; edited by Rose Issa.
Author: Afnan, Maliheh, 1935-2016.
Publication: [London] : SAQI Books in association with Beyond Art Production, 2010.

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175 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 29 cm

Summary

Maliheh Afnan's work appears "as a relic of an older civilization or an archaeological excavation into the collective psyche. The delicacy of Persian miniatures and manuscripts, which she remembers from childhood, is mirrored in her love for intimate scale and the refined beauty of muted colour." Calligraphy plays an important role: images appear that suggest the written word. Works on paper and tablets of painted plaster are reminiscent of ancient, almost obliterated texts, and, like palimpsests, retain only some vestige of literal meaning and an impression of human contact. Afnan has absorbed both Middle Eastern and Western influences. She has looked towards such artists as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Jean Dubuffet, and Paul Klee, and shares an affinity with the American artist Mark Tobey, who helped arrange the first European exhibition of her work in 1971. Maliheh Afnan obtained an MFA from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, in 1962. Her work is represented in the Institute du Monde Arabe in Paris and in the British Museum in London. Afnan most recently exhibited at the Martin Gropius Bau Museum in Berlin ("Taswir: Pictorial Mappings of Modernity & Islam").

Alternative Title

Traces, faces and places

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction by Lutz Becker --- Early work --- Meeting Mark Tobey --- Traces/ Ecritures --- Faces/ Personnages --- Places/ Paysages --- Reliefs & objects --- Veiled --- Questionnaire --- Biography.

Call Number

JQF 16-208

ISBN

9780863564864
0863564860

OCLC

505425505

Author

Afnan, Maliheh, 1935-2016.

Title

Maliheh Afnan : traces, faces and places / foreword by John Berger ; edited by Rose Issa.

Imprint

[London] : SAQI Books in association with Beyond Art Production, 2010.

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Berger, John.

Issa, Rose.

Other Form:

Online version: Afnan, Maliheh, 1935- Maliheh Afnan. 1st ed. [London] : SAQI Books in association with Beyond Art Production, 2010 (OCoLC)744582659

Research Call Number

JQF 16-208

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