Art of the Middle East: modern and contemporary art of the Arab world and Iran
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"Art of the Middle East is an accessible overview of modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world from 1945 to the present, with an emphasis on artists active today. The featured works are divided into seven themed sections - including literature, portraiture and the body, and politics, conflict and war..." Published in 2010. Best survey book
New vision: Arab contemporary art in the 21st century
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Essays combined with profiles of 90 artists.
Contemporary art in the Middle East
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Essays with profiles of 45 artists.
Surveys of Modern Art up to 1990
Modern Islamic art: development and continuity
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Published in 1997 covers developments up to the 1980s and sometimes into the 1990s. Chapters on individual countries.
Contemporary art from the Islamic world
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Published in 1989, covers developments into the 1980s. The list of artists discussed appears on pages v-vi. There is no bibliography.
Moroccan Art
Dictionnaire des artistes contemporains du Maroc
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Alphabetically arranged short profiles of artists. Book ends with survey of galleries and art institutions. In French.
Important Studies
Word into art: artists of the modern Middle East
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"Word into Art not only testifies to the strong calligraphic tradition of the Middle East, but also demonstrates the powerful and imaginative ways in which artists are using writing today."--BOOK JACKET.
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