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Dissonant archives : contemporary visual culture and contested narratives in the Middle East
- Title
- Dissonant archives : contemporary visual culture and contested narratives in the Middle East / edited by Anthony Downey.
- Publication
- London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2015.
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- Additional Authors
- Downey, Anthony
- Description
- 469 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.
- Summary
- Archives are often viewed as ordered collections of historical documents that record information about people, places and events. This view nevertheless obscures a crucial element in these processes: the archive, whilst subject to the vagaries of time and history, is also concerned with determining the future. This feature of the archive has gained considerable urgency in modern-day North Africa and the Middle East where it has come to the fore as a site of social, historical, theoretical, and political contestation. Dissonant Archives is the first book to consider the ways in which contemporary artists, in exploring archival contexts and structures, foreground a systemic and perhaps irrevocable crisis in institutional and state-ordained archiving across the region.
- Series Statement
- Visual culture in the Middle East series ; 2
- Uniform Title
- Visual culture in the Middle East ; 2.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781784534110
- 1784534110
- LCCN
- 99964231206
- OCLC
- ocn909250369
- 909250369
- SCSB-5818157
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries