Exhibition catalog for "Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art"

Identifier:AAR.EC.0151

Creation dates:2007

contributor: Diana Block, Sarah-Jayne Parsons, Nada Shabout

Subjects: Iraqi, exhibition catalogs

Description:Catalog for "Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art," an exhibition on view at the Center for Book Arts January 19, 2007 - March 31, 2007. Coordinated and organized by Diana Block, Sarah-Jayne Parsons, and Dr. Nada Shabout, Assistant Professor of Art History and Guest Curator, University of North Texas Art Gallery.

A group exhibition that explores the proliferation of book-form art as currently practiced by contemporary Iraqi artists. Organized by Dr. Nada Shabout, Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas, the exhibition will introduce the work of 15 contemporary Iraqi artists, some still living and working in Baghdad, Iraq, while others in exile in various countries and for various lengths of time. The artists and their works are selected to present the experiments of three different generations of Iraqi artists, including one female artist, and their diverse approaches. The exhibition will launch their work as a unique contemporary Iraqi experiment, and present the Iraqi culture as a current living entity defying the old cliches of exoticism. It will also bring contemporary Iraqi book art to New York City for the first time and show a different face of a nation that is currently part of our daily news.

Featured artists: Shakir Hassan Al Said, Dia Al-Azzawi, Sadiq Kwaish Alfraji, Rafa Al-Nasiri, Mahummud Al-Obaidi, Mohammed Al-Shammarey, Ammar Dawod, Mohammed Fakher, Ismail Fattah, Ghassan Gha'eb, Nedim Kufi, Hana' Malallah, Moaid Nama, Ibrahim Rashied, Kareem Rissan, Samar Usama, Nazar Yahya.