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Helen Khal : Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s

Title

Helen Khal : Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s / edited by Carla Chammas, Rachel Dedman, and Omar Kholeif ; [foreword by Christine Tohmé].

Publication

[London, England] : Sternberg Press, [2023]
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175 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s is a reflective exhibition catalogue; part archive, as well as a living testament to the late Helen Khal (1923-2009). A polymath, an artist, educator, and writer, Khal was also the co-founder of Gallery One, the first modern and contemporary art gallery in Lebanon, which opened its doors to the public in Beirut, in 1963. The catalogue follows on from an exhibition initiated by Carla Chammas and curated by Chammas and Rachel Dedman as part of "Home Works 8: A Forum on Cultural Practices", opening its doors at the Sursock Museum, Beirut in October 2019. The exhibition, like the catalogue, detailed Helen's life and practice as a catalytic lens through which to explore the work of a group of artists whom she was close to, in life and in art, including: Chafic Abboud, Yvette Achkar, Etel Adnan, Huguette Caland, Simone Fattal, Farid Haddad, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Aref El Rayess, and Dorothy Salhab-Kazemi. From here, the publication seeks to address the exhibition's themes of love, sex, and motherhood, the relationship between visual art and the literary landscape of 1960s and 1970s Beirut, and the galleries and studios in which public collaborations and private kinships were forged. Taking an intimate approach to a fabled period, Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s, unfolds a rich picture of the friendships, connections, modes of exchange, common concerns, and differing approaches of some of the best-known and least-remembered artists of the mid-twentieth century in Lebanon.

Alternative Title

Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s
At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Published on the occasion of the exhibiton "At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance," curated by Carla Chammas and Rachel Dedman, Sursock Museum, Beirut.

Contents

Prologue / Carla Chammas -- Foreword / Christine Tohmé -- Helen Khal: friendship and worldbuilding, part 1 -- The journey of an exhibition: a beginning / Carla Chammas -- The exhibition "At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance" -- In detail: At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance / Rachel Dedman -- Helen Khal: friendship and worldbuilding, part 2 -- All things unsettled, remain / Omar Kholeif -- Biographies -- Acknowledgments / Carla Chammas -- Afterword Helen Khal: energy, painting, and worldbuilding / Omar Kholeif.

Call Number

JQF 24-727

ISBN

1915609216
9781915609212

OCLC

1378930533

Title

Helen Khal : Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s / edited by Carla Chammas, Rachel Dedman, and Omar Kholeif ; [foreword by Christine Tohmé].

Publisher

[London, England] : Sternberg Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Chammas, Carla, editor.

Dedman, Rachel, editor.

Kholeif, Omar, editor.

Ṭuʻmah, Kirīstīn, author of foreword.

Matḥaf Sursuq, host institution.

Added Title

At the still point of the turning world, there is the dance

Research Call Number

JQF 24-727

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