Gasparian Natasha
Gasparian Natasha - Commitment In The Artistic Practice Of Aref El - Rayess The Changing Of Horses - Paperback
Gasparian Natasha - Commitment In The Artistic Practice Of Aref El - Rayess The Changing Of Horses - Paperback
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Description: In April 1968, ten months after the Arab defeat of the 1967 June War Aref El - Rayess's Dima wa Hurriyya (Blood and Freedom) opened to the public in the exhibition hall of the L Orient newspaper headquarters in Beirut Lebanon. The 5th of June or The Changing of Horses a realist mural painting on canvas was the exhibition's centerpiece. With this artwork El - Rayess declared his commitment to national liberation and socialist revolution. The Changing of Horses was presented and received as an allegory of political commitment but the slips silences and repetitions in the public reception point to its excessive disturbing and fundamentally uncanny character. In Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El - Rayess the first comprehensive study of the work Natasha Gasparian weaves together a social art history from the artist's writings exhibition reviews guestbook comments personal correspondences and testimonies as well as social political and aesthetic shifts particularly as they related to the debates on commitment (iltizam) in the aftermath of the June 1967 war. By attempting to reconstruct this history of the artwork and tracing the caesuras in the discourse around it Gasparian exposes the social antagonism that is repressed and obfuscated in the idealized narrative sustained by El - Rayess and his audiences. She argues that the oversight in the reception the critics and audiences inability to see attests to the delay in grasping the work historically and signals its avant - gardism.
Title: Commitment In The Artistic Practice Of Aref El - Rayess The Changing Of Horses
Author(s): Gasparian Natasha
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781785274626
Pages: 78 Pages
Publication Date: 11/13/2020
Series: Anthem Impact
Category: Painting & Paintings
Description: In April 1968, ten months after the Arab defeat of the 1967 June War Aref El - Rayess's Dima wa Hurriyya (Blood and Freedom) opened to the public in the exhibition hall of the L Orient newspaper headquarters in Beirut Lebanon. The 5th of June or The Changing of Horses a realist mural painting on canvas was the exhibition's centerpiece. With this artwork El - Rayess declared his commitment to national liberation and socialist revolution. The Changing of Horses was presented and received as an allegory of political commitment but the slips silences and repetitions in the public reception point to its excessive disturbing and fundamentally uncanny character. In Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El - Rayess the first comprehensive study of the work Natasha Gasparian weaves together a social art history from the artist's writings exhibition reviews guestbook comments personal correspondences and testimonies as well as social political and aesthetic shifts particularly as they related to the debates on commitment (iltizam) in the aftermath of the June 1967 war. By attempting to reconstruct this history of the artwork and tracing the caesuras in the discourse around it Gasparian exposes the social antagonism that is repressed and obfuscated in the idealized narrative sustained by El - Rayess and his audiences. She argues that the oversight in the reception the critics and audiences inability to see attests to the delay in grasping the work historically and signals its avant - gardism.
Title: Commitment In The Artistic Practice Of Aref El - Rayess The Changing Of Horses
Author(s): Gasparian Natasha
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781785274626
Pages: 78 Pages
Publication Date: 11/13/2020
Series: Anthem Impact
Category: Painting & Paintings
