Sculptures of Jeddah: Twentieth-Century Sculpture in the Arabian Peninsula - Couverture rigide

Dercon, Chris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1861543387 ISBN 13 : 9781861543387

Editeur : Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

40 years ago, Jeddah mayor Mohamed Said Farsi transformed his city through an urban development scheme that placed contemporary art at its core. This was public art on a grand scale, designed 'to bring delight to the citizen, to give a sense of wonder and stir a sense of history'. Works were commissioned from the world's greatest sculptors and this book documents the restoration and relocation of some 26 major works to a new Open Air Museum. It allows the world a unique glimpse into a city not easily visited and shows Saudi Arabia as a place of vision and innovation in art.

Revue de presse :

"As Ahmed Mater's photographs in the book Sculptures of Jeddah show, this ancient city near Mecca is the home to one of the world's most spectacular arrays of open-air modern sculpture. ... Victor Vassarely, Joan Miro, Jean Arp - they all got the call from Jeddah." --Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Booth-Clibborn Editions
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1861543387
• ISBN 13: 9781861543387
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 282