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The Future of Traditions

Writing Pictures: Contemporary Art From the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780957021389

Contributor(s): Rose Issa (edited by), Bob Annibale (edited by)

Subjects: Lettering & Calligraphy

Publisher: Rose Issa Projects

Publisher Imprint: Rose Issa Projects

Publication Date: 23-03-2023

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£8.00

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About the book

This exhibition showcases three generations of artists from Iran and the Arab world, a few exceptional contemporary calligraphers, but mainly those only occasionally incorporating the written word in their works today. These artists, from different backgrounds and possessing diverse styles, take inspiration from their own culture; they use the morphology of letters and phonemes, the rhymes and rhythms of calligraphy, abstracting words into pictures and thoughts into images. The result over the past six decades has been the creation of an alternative and original approach to modernism and contemporary art, while representing the birth of new and different aesthetics.

The Future of Traditions

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