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Department of Fine Arts & Art History - Faculty Publications

Department of Fine Arts & Art History - Faculty Publications

 

Recent Submissions

  • This is the Time 
    Harutyunyan, Angela; Muller, Nat (AUB Press, )
    This book is a hybrid anthology of commissioned art and written works on the subject of capturing time and temporality, representing a collaboration between the American University of Beirut Art Galleries and the Stedelijk ...
  • Critical Machines: Exhibition and Conference 
    Esanu, Octavian (AUB Art Galleries, )
    This publication is dedicated to a 2014 exhibition and conference at AUB entitled Critical Machines. For the exhibition, we borrowed the metaphor of the “critical machine” from the language of modern labor processes and ...
  • Art Periodicals Today: Historically Considered 
    Esanu, Octavian; Harutyunyan, Angela (MIT Press, )
    ARTMargins publishes scholarly articles and essays about contemporary art, media, architecture, and critical theory. The special issue “Art Periodicals Today: Historically Considered” sketches the advent of periodicals in ...
  • Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and The American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut 
    Auji, Hala (Brill, )
    Printing Arab Modernity presents printed books and pamphlets as important sites for visual, material, and cultural analysis in nineteenth-century Beirut at a time of an emerging Arab modernity.
  • Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art: On the Vicissitudes of Contact between Human and Divine 
    Franses, Rico (Cambridge University Press, )
    This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, supernatural interlocutors. ...
  • The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-Garde: The Journey of the 'Painterly Real' 
    Harutyunyan, Angela (Manchester University Press, )
    The book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent transformations from the late 1980s to 2004. It explores the emergence of 'contemporary art' in Armenia from within and in opposition ...
  • Ressentiment 
    Sadek, Walid; Nassar, Adel (Ashkal Alwan, HomeWorks VI, )
    A selection of poems by Adel Nasser, translated by Dr. Walid Sadek.
  • Intersections: Practices of Curating, Education and Theory 
    Harutyunyan, Angela (Printinfo, )
    The essays collected in this volume tackle questions related to the possibility of critique, cultural agency as well as propose new positions. They operate on the intersection between art, society and politics as well as ...
  • Lebanese Painterly Humanism: Georges D 
    Esanu, Octavian (AUB Art Galleries, )
    The exhibition, Lebanese Painterly Humanism: Georges D. Corm [7896-1971], organized by the AUB Art Gallery sets on display the work of the Lebanese painter, writer, and cultural activist Georges Daoud Corm. Rather than ...
  • Art, Awakening and Modernity in the Middle East: The Arab Nude 
    Esanu, Octavian (Routledge, )
    This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by scholars from several disciplines (art history, history, anthropology). ...
  • The Ruin to Come 
    Sadek, Walid (Motto Berlin, )
    These collected essays look at the conditions of living under a temporality theorized as the protracted now of a civil war structurally capable of renewing the conditions of its longevous dominance. This protracted now, ...
  • Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989 
    Esanu, Octavian (Central European University Press, )
    The artistic tradition that emerged as a form of cultural resistance in the 1970s changed during the transition from socialism to capitalism. This volume presents the evolution of the Moscow-based conceptual artist group ...
  • El Tiempo Y La Edad Del Ojo 
    Sadek, Walid (Continta Me Tienes, )
    This book [The Time and Age of the Eye] is a bilingual Arabic-Spanish publication that includes fourteen essays, from two different works, that revolve around the value of the body, of the faces, and of their representations ...
  • Under the peacock throne: Carpets, felts, and silks in Persian painting, 1736-1834 
    Maktabi H. (, 2009)
    [No abstract available]