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Iman Issa
Iman Issa (born 1979) is an Egyptian multi-disciplinary artist whose work looks at the power of display in relation to academic and cultural institutions at large. Issa has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Her most notable shows include the solo exhibition, Iman Issa: Heritage Studies' at MACBA, Barcelona, Iman Issa: Heritage Studies'at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), and Material' at Rodeo, Istanbul. Her videography has been featured at the Transmediale, Transmediale, Berlin, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Tate Modern, London, Spacex, Exeter, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, and Bidoun Artists' Cinema. She lectures at the New School and is currently a part-time professor at the Cooper Union School of the Arts, Cooper Union's School of Arts. Issa lives and works between Cairo and New York City. Early life and education Iman Issa was born in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt in 1979. In 2001, she completed h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pérez Art Museum Miami
The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Museum Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. Founded in 1984 as the Center for the Fine Arts, it became known as the Miami Art Museum from 1996 until it was renamed in 2013 upon the opening of its new building designed by Herzog & de Meuron at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard. PAMM, along with the $275 million Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science and a city park which are being built in the area with completion in 2017, is part of the 20-acre Museum Park (formerly Bicentennial Park). In 2014, the museum's permanent collection contained over 1,800 works, particularly 20th- and 21st-century art from the Americas, Western Europe and Africa. In 2016, the museum's collection contained nearly 2,000 works. Since the opening of the new museum building at Museum Park, the museum has seen record attendance levels with over 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Museums With Major Collections In Ethnography And Anthropology
This is a list of museums with major Collection (museum), collections in ethnography and anthropology. It is sorted by descending number of objects listed. # Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada #: 3.75 million artifacts # Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France #: 1,170,495 objects in 2014 including an iconotheque of about 700,000 pieces (plus a mediatheque of 260,000 and archives) # University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA. #: The Museum houses over 1.35 million objects, with one of the most comprehensive collections and Middle and Near-Eastern art in the world. # Kunstkamera, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia #: 1 117,000 objects # University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK #: 800,000 objects # Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA #: 634,000 objects (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huma Mulji
Huma Mulji (born 1970 in Karachi) is a Pakistani contemporary artist. Her works are in the collections of the Saatchi Gallery, London and the Asia Society Museum. She received the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2013. Life Huma Mulji was born in 1970 in Karachi, Pakistan. In 1995, she completed a BFA at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan, and in 2010, received an MFA from Transart Institute in Berlin, Germany. From 2003 to 2015, she was an associate professor at the School of Visual Arts, Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan. In 2016, she was a fellow at the Terra Foundation for American Art. She was Visiting Artist at the Goldsmiths' College, London, UK in 2015 to 2017. In 2017, Mulji received the Nigaah Art Award. She is currently Lecturer at the University of West of England, Bristol, UK, and Lecturer, BA (Hons) Fine Art, at the Plymouth College of Art, UK. Works Mulji's artworks were exhibited at Art Dubai in UAE, 10th Gwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayyane Tabet
Rayyane Tabet (born 1983) is a Lebanese visual artist, he is known for his sculpture. He has lived and worked in both Beirut and San Francisco. Early life and education Rayyane Tabet was born in 1983 in Ashqout, Lebanon. He has training as an artist and as an architect, and has a Bachelor of Architecture degree (2008) from Cooper Union, and a MFA degree (2012) from the University of California, San Diego. Art career Much of Tabet's work is based on research and mostly about socio-political history, informed by architecture. The ''Five Distant Memories'' series was work from 2006 until 2016, about the transformation of Tabet's early childhood memories in relationship to objects, and situations. His first solo exhibition in Italy was ''La Mano De Dios'' (2016) at the Marino Marini Museum, which included work from his ''Five Distant Memories'' series. In 2019, the exhibition ''Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property'' opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and displayed the museum's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vartan Avakian
Vartan ( hy, Վարդան) (Vardan in Eastern Armenian transliteration) is an Armenian name. Vartan or Värtan may refer to: Saint Vartan *Saint Vartan (full name Vardan Mamikonian, 393–451 AD), Armenian military leader, martyr and saint of the Armenian Church *St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral, Armenian Apostolic church in New York City Vartan Mononym *Sargis Mehrabyan, known as Commander Vartan, Armenian fedayee military commander and member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation *Vartan Pasha (full name Hovsep Vartanian or Osep Vartanian), Ottoman Armenian statesman, author and journalist of the 19th century * Vartan Kurjian, an art director Given name *Vartan Ghazarian (born 1969), Lebanese-Armenian footballer *Vartan Gregorian (1934–2021), Armenian-American academic *Vartan Malakian, Armenian-American artist and father of Daron Malakian, an Armenian-American musician * Vartan Matiossian (born 1964), historian, translator, editor, and teacher *Vartan Oskanian (born 1955), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrair Sarkissian
''Watership Down'' is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in Berkshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with burrows, they are anthropomorphised, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel follows the rabbits as they escape the destruction of their warren and seek a place to establish a new home (the hill of Watership Down), encountering perils and temptations along the way. ''Watership Down'' was Richard Adams' debut novel. It was rejected by several publishers before Collings accepted the manuscript; the published book then won the annual Carnegie Medal (UK), annual Guardian Prize (UK), and other book awards. The novel was adapted into an animated feature film in 1978 and, from 1999 to 2001, an animated children's television series. In 2018, a drama of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi ( ar, نوال السعداوي, , 22 October 1931 – 21 March 2021) was an Egyptian feminist writer, activist and physician. She wrote many books on the subject of women in Islam, paying particular attention to the practice of female genital mutilation in her society. She was described as "the Simone de Beauvoir of the Arab World", and as "Egypt's most radical woman". She was founder and president of the Arab Women's Solidarity Association and co-founder of the Arab Association for Human Rights. She was awarded honorary degrees on three continents. In 2004, she won the North–South Prize from the Council of Europe. In 2005, she won the Inana International Prize in Belgium,"PEN World Voices Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by Nawal El Saadawi" YouTube. 8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taha Hussein
Taha Hussein (, ar, طه حسين; November 15, 1889 – October 28, 1973) was one of the most influential 20th-century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Nahda, Egyptian Renaissance and the modernism, modernist movement in the Middle East and North Africa. His sobriquet was "The Dean of Arabic Literature" ( ar, عميد الأدب العربي). He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature twenty-one times. Early life Taha Hussein was born in Izbet el Kilo, a village in the Minya Governorate in central Upper Egypt. He was the seventh of thirteen children of lower-middle-class parents. He contracted ophthalmia at the age of two, and, as the result of faulty treatment by an unskilled practitioner, he became blind. After attending a kuttab, he studied religion and Arabic literature at Al-Azhar University, El Azhar University; but from an early age, he was dissatisfied with the traditional education system. When the secular Cairo University was fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti ( ar, مريد البرغوثي, ; 8 July 1944 – 14 February 2021) was a Palestinian poet and writer. Biography Barghouti was born in Deir Ghassana, near Ramallah, on the West Bank, in 8 July 1944. He studied English literature at Cairo University, graduating in 1967, though he was exiled from Egypt in 1977. The Oslo Accords finally allowed Barghouti to return to the West Bank, and in 1996 he returned to Ramallah after 30 years of exile. This event inspired his autobiographical novel ''Ra'aytu Ram Allah'' ('' I Saw Ramallah''), published by Dar Al Hilal (Cairo, 1997), which won him the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in the same year. A follow-up, ''I Was Born There, I Was Born Here'' was written when he and his son, Tamim, made a visit to the city. In an interview with Maya Jaggi in ''The Guardian'', Barghouti was quoted as saying: "I learn from trees. Just as many fruits drop before they're ripe, when I write a poem I treat it with healthy cruelty, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''White Mythologies: Writing History and the West'', New York & London: Routledge, 1990. Born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran. Educated in the Western canon at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the Middle East; his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno. As a cultural critic, Said is known for the book ''Orientalism'' (1978), a critique of the cultural representations that are the bases o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plinth
A pedestal (from French ''piédestal'', Italian ''piedistallo'' 'foot of a stall') or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles. In civil engineering, it is also called ''basement''. The minimum height of the plinth is usually kept as 45 cm (for buildings). It transmits loads from superstructure to the substructure and acts as the retaining wall for the filling inside the plinth or raised floor. In sculpting, the terms base, plinth, and pedestal are defined according to their subtle differences. A base is defined as a large mass that supports the sculpture from below. A plinth is defined as a flat and planar support which separates the sculpture from the environment. A pedestal, on the other hand, is defined as a shaft-like form that raises the sculpture and separates it from the base. An elevated pedestal or plinth that bears a statue, and which is raised from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromogenic Color Print
A chromogenic print, also known as a C-print or C-type print, a silver halide print, or a dye coupler print, is a Photographic printing, photographic print made from a Negative (photography), color negative, reversal film, transparency or digital image, and developed using a chromogenic process. They are composed of three layers of gelatin, each containing an emulsion of silver halide, which is used as a light-sensitive material, and a different dye coupler of subtractive color which together, when developed, form a full-color image. History Developing color by using oxidized developers was first suggested by German chemist Benno Homolka who, in 1907, successfully developed insoluble indigo dye, indigo-blue and red dyes on a latent image by oxidizing indoxyl and thio-indoxyl respectively. He additionally noted these developers could create beautiful photographic effects. The potential of oxidized developers in a color photographic process however, was first realized by another ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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