The International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized international networks of artists in solidarity with anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s and ’70s. In that era, individual artists and artist collectives assembled collections; organized touring exhibitions, public interventions and actions; and collaborated with institutions and political movements. Their aim was to lend support and bring artistic engagement to protests against the ongoing war in Vietnam, the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and the apartheid regime in South Africa, and they were aligned in international solidarity for anti-colonial struggles. Past Disquiet brings together contributions from scholars, curators and writers who reflect on these marginalized histories and undertakings that took place in Baghdad, Beirut, Belgrade, Damascus, Paris, Rabat, Tokyo, and Warsaw. The book also offers translations of primary texts and recent interviews with some of the artists involved.
Author(s): Kristine Khouri, Rasha Salti
Series: Museum under Construction
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 376
City: Warsaw
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Title Page
Table of Content
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Part 1. INTRODUCING PAST DISQUIET
BARTOMEU MARÍ
ANSELM FRANKE
JOANNA MYTKOWSKA
KRISTINE KHOURI AND RASHA SALTI
Part 2. ON PAST DISQUIET
KRISTINE KHOURI AND RASHA SALTI: Transnational Solidarity Networks and Speculative Histories: 1960s–1980s
Part 3. ESSAYS/INTERVIEWS/ DOCUMENTS
SLIMAN MANSOUR: Interview by Mohanad Yaqubi on behalf of the editors
REEM SHILLEH AND MOHANAD YAQUBI: Prologue: The London Film Connection
ALIA NAKHLI: Writing the History of Modern Arab Art
TONI MARAINI: Interview by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti
For a Cultural Humanism (1977)
In the Margins of the Biennial (1978)
Interview with Farid Belkahia (1978)
ANNEKA LENSSEN: Material Support: On Arab Artists’ Unions and Solidarity
NAKAJIMA IZUMI: Dream for Solidarity: Palestinian Art, JAALA, and Haryū Ichirō in the 1970s and 1980s
VLADIMIR TAMARI: Interview by Rasha Salti
DOMINIKA BLACHNICKA-CIACEK: Lost in Transition? The Forgotten History of Exchanges between Communist Poland and the Palestine Liberation Organization
KATARZYNA MATUL: “Art Instead of Politics”: Polish Artists “in Solidarity” with Palestine and Chile in the 1970s and 1980s
JÉRÔME BAZIN: Seeing Near, Seeing Far: What Do Images Tell Us About Solidarity in Popular Democracies?
JELENA VESIĆ: Trajectories of Solidarity in Time: The Week of Latin America in Belgrade, Students’ Cultural Center, 1977
SARA CATENACCI: Solidarity and Socially Engaged Art in 1970s Italy
CATHERINE DOSSIN: The Brush and the Kalashnikov: The Political Vision of the Jeune Peinture from Paris to Beirut
CAROLL YASKY AND CLAUDIA ZALDÍVAR: An Atypical Museum: The Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende
ELODIE LEBEAU: When Solidarity Became Art: The Museo Internacional de la Resistencia Salvador Allende (1975–90)
ERNEST PIGNON-ERNEST: Interview by Rasha Salti
MAEDA REI: Interview by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti
GORDON METZ AND ANDRÉ ODENDAAL: Interview by Rasha Salti
List of Works and Photo Credits
Aknowledgements
Colophon
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