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Reading Modern Art in the Arab World from Morocco and Qatar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2020

Holiday Powers
Holiday Powers*
Affiliation:
Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar
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Abstract

Modern Art in the Arab World is a collection of approximately 125 primary documents dealing with the debates around modernism in the Arab world dating between 1882 to 1987. This essay responds to the book from two perspectives: first, as an academic researching modernism in Morocco, and second, as a Qatar-based professor that teaches undergraduate courses about modern and contemporary Arab art. The book highlights a broadly defined and heterogeneous Arab world that extends from Morocco to the Gulf, and the selected texts create new conversations between these varied movements. It is evidence of the changing nature of this field of study. As a tool for teaching, the book offers signposts about what the editors consider to be the most significant debates and events in a given place while also creating the possibility for reading these movements transnationally.

Keywords

ModernismArab artTransnationalMoroccoQatar
Type
Special Focus: Is There a Canon? Artistic Modernisms Across Geographies
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , June 2020 , pp. 5 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc.

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References

1 Lenssen, Anneka, Rogers, Sarah, and Shabout, Nada, eds. Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2018)Google Scholar