Sundry modernism : materials for a study of Palestinian modernism /
With Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture, an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various res...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
| Language Notes: | Parallel texts in English and Arabic. |
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Berlin :
Sternberg Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | With Sundry Modernism, Oraib Toukan presents an informal register of modernist Palestinian architecture, an assemblage of images and stories collected from 2013 to 2015 in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Jericho. Using her photographs as conversation prompts with various residents, historians and architects, Toukan places the anecdotes collected thereby into political and historical context, weaving together narrative and critique. Sundry Modernism sets out to be a gesture, a nod, a salutation to and a critique of, the lines and angles of Palestinian modernism. It is a provocation on the act of looking, and, in particular, it is a proposal for reading apolitical forms in politicized contexts. |
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| Physical Description: | 244 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783956793745 3956793749 |