Hirmer Verlag

Hirmer Verlag - Taking shape | suheyla takesh, lynn gumpert

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• Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World
• 1950s–1980s traces the emergence and development of abstraction in the Arab World through paintings and sculpture dating from the 1950s through the 1980s
• Drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation based in Sharjah
• UAE
• This book features nearly 80 works by a diverse group of artists
• Taking Shape explores how 20th-century abstraction developed and played out in the Arab World
• Shedding light on a number of abstract movements initiated by artists’ collectives as well as individual practitioners in the region and the Arab diaspora
• This book examines how these artists moved away from figuration and naturalistic depictions of reality toward investigations into the expressive capacities of line
• Color
• And texture