TAMÁSS Contemporary Arab Representations Beirut/Lebanon 1
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Author: Catherine David e.a. Year: 2002 Publisher: Witte de With, Rotterdam ISBN: 84-88786-61-1 Design Nieves Berenguer Ros Size 235 x 170 mm; 168 pages; approx. 144 color photographs and illustrations; paperback
Tamáss 1 Tamáss is a series of publications about current Arab cultural discourses which forms part of the long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations. Tamáss 1 is dedicated to Beirut and Lebanon featuring the concern of many Lebanese intellectuals with the development and promotion of an experimental, critical contemporary Arab culture. Tamáss 1 is a coproduction of Witte de With, Rotterdam, and Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona. Following Tamáss 1, Tamáss 2 focuses on the contemporary cultural situation in Cairo and Egypt.
CONTENTS Texts Catherine David, “Presentation”; Walid Sadek, “Laissez-passer”; Jalal Toufic, “Ruins”; Saree Makdisi, “Beirut/Beirut”; Tony Chakar, “The Suburbs and the Vocabulary of Urbanisation: Violence as an Architectural Language”; Tony Chakar, “Life under the Bridges: Between the Illusion of Purity and Defilement”; Walid Sadek, “From Excavation to Dispersion: Configurations of Installation Art in Post-War Lebanon”; Bilal Khbeiz / Walid Sadek, “Al-Kasal”; Bilal Khbeiz, “Kindness Shunned”; Elias Khoury / Rabih Mroué, “Three Posters”; Rabih Mroué, “The Fabrication of Truth”; Jalal Toufic, “Two Posthumous Resumes”; The Atlas Group Project / Walid Raad, “Civilizationally, We Do Not Dig Holes To Bury Ourselves”; Bilal Khbeiz, “Imprisoning the Body”; Marwan Rechmaoui; Paola Yacoub Michel Lasserre, “The Routine”. Biographies
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