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 On 3 September 2002, three artists set off on a year-long journey across the Middle East, their aim to transmit through their art their immediate experience of the Islamic world. The result is Off Screen. Tactile reflections of form and colour, layered collages of Persian and Arabic type and iconography interwoven with diary extracts and ephemera communicate a visually rich, deliberately subjective and very accessible record of a journey and a fascinating portrait of cultural identity in the 21st century. The book follows in the footsteps of Al Braithwaite, Henry Hemming, Stephen Stapleton and Georgie Weedon as they work their way through Turkey, Iran, Kurdish Iraq, UAE and Oman, across Yemen to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, post-war Iraq and Israel. Throughout, they collaborated with local artists, took part in workshops and staged exhibitions in Tehran, Musqat and Amman, thus setting up a cultural dialogue wherever they went.
Crucially, they got to places that foreign journalists, writers and tourists don't get to: they worked in remote villages in militarily tense eastern Turkey; they were in Kurdish Iraq on Christmas Eve and visited the alcohol- and drug-fuelled ski slopes above Tehran; they sat out the war with a Bedl family in Petra and made portraits of artists in Baghdad just eight weeks after Bush declared hostilities to be over. Finally, they visited the Dome of the Rock during a brief lull in its closure to foreign visitors. Their aim was to remove misconceptions about the Middle East, and explore and define the reality of life in this part of the world. They wanted to make their own contribution to the much-needed exchange of understanding through their art, specifically by making art in situ, what Braithwaite refers to as 'context-obsessed spontaneous expression'.
Each double-page spread of the book stands as an individual artwork, reflecting their collective experiences of the streets, mosques, homes and deserts and capturing the modern face of... Stock Availability: In stock at the publisher and usually ships by us in 7 - 10 days. Allow a few extra days for delivery Category: Travel - Regional - Middle East General Complete List Bestsellers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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