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Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess: The Changing of Horses - Couverture souple

Gasparian, Natasha

 
9781785274626: Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess: The Changing of Horses
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1785274627 ISBN 13 : 9781785274626
Editeur : Anthem Press, 2020

Synopsis

In April 1968, ten months after the Arab defeat of the 1967 June War, Aref El-Rayess's Dimaʾ wa Hurriyya (Blood and Freedom) opened to the public in the exhibition hall of the L'Orient newspaper headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The 5th of June, or, The Changing of Horses, a realist mural painting on canvas, was the exhibition's centerpiece. With this artwork, El-Rayess declared his commitment to national liberation and socialist revolution. The Changing of Horses was presented and received as an allegory of political commitment, but the slips, silences, and repetitions in the public reception point to its excessive, disturbing, and fundamentally uncanny character. In Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess, the first comprehensive study of the work, Natasha Gasparian weaves together a social art history from the artist's writings, exhibition reviews, guestbook comments, personal correspondences and testimonies, as well as social, political, and aesthetic shifts, particularly as they related to the debates on commitment (iltizam) in the aftermath of the June 1967 war. By attempting to reconstruct this history of the artwork and tracing the caesuras in the discourse around it, Gasparian exposes the social antagonism that is repressed and obfuscated in the idealized narrative sustained by El-Rayess and his audiences. She argues that the oversight in the reception--the critics' and audiences' inability to see--attests to the delay in grasping the work historically and signals its avant-gardism.

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À propos de l'auteur

Natasha Gasparian is an art historian and critic. She has collaborated on writing, research, and curatorial projects with numerous institutions in Beirut, Lebanon, including Agial, Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut Art Center, and the Saradar Collection.

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Éditeur
Anthem Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1785274627
ISBN 13 
9781785274626
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
78
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