商品簡介
Considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement, Nabil Anani is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. A painter, ceramicist and sculptor, Anani has built an impressive catalogue of outstanding, innovative and unique art over the past four decades, pioneering the use of local media such as leather, henna, natural dyes, Papier-mâché, wood, beads and copper.
Nabil Anani’s development as an artist has run in parallel with major events in recent Palestinian history. Palestinian art exhibits, as a consequence of its extraordinary political and historical context, distinctive artistic responses to issues of exile, dislocation, conflict, memory and loss. Indeed, Anani’s work, embracing a wide range of media and artistic expression as well as a commitment to public art, embraces those critical political and psychological areas, which constitute the lived Palestinian experience. His artistic vision restores and celebrates a denied and often-forgotten reality, his work re-igniting memory.
Published to coincide with the 70-year anniversary of the Nakba, this book brings together over 150 of the pioneering artist’s works from 1976–2016, as well as essays from leading experts in contemporary Middle Eastern and Palestinian art. Filling a critical gap in Palestinian art history, this monograph is essential for the expert and enlightening for the general reader.
作者簡介
Nabil Anani (b.1943, Latroun, Palestine) graduated in Fine Art from Alexandra University, Egypt, in 1969. Anani held his first exhibition in Jerusalem in 1972 and has since exhibited widely in solo and group shows in Europe, North America, the Middle East, North Africa and Japan. Anani was awarded (by Yasser Arafat) the first Palestinian National Prize for Visual Art in 1997 and became the head of the League of Palestinian Artists in 1998. Anani played a key role in the establishment of the first International Academy of Fine Art in Palestine. He lives in Ramallah, Palestine.Nada Shabout is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas. She has published numerous articles on contemporary Arab art and is the founding director of the Modern Art Iraq Archive. Tina Sherwell is the Director of Academic Programmes at the International Academy of Art Palestine in Jerusalem. She has worked extensively as a curator and critic with a focus on contemporary Palestinian art. Bashir Makhoul is a Palestinian artist and the newly-appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts in the UK.
