There Where You Are Not: Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata

There Where You Are Not brings together the writings of celebrated Palestinian artist and theorist Kamal Boullata (1942-2019). Produced over four decades of exile in Europe, North Africa, and the United States, the essays explore intersections between aesthetics, history, and politics that are central to the historiography of modern Arab art.

The experience of exile and the imperatives of resistance permeate the essays, whose subjects range from autobiography to contemporary art, early ruminations on gender relations, language and the visual, to questions of identity and globalization. Taken collectively, they explore intersections between aesthetics, history, and politics that are central to the historiography of modern Arab art.

Finbarr Barry Flood is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities and the founder and director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories at New York University. His books include Objects of Translation: Material Culture and Medieval "Hindu-Muslim" Encounter and The Great Mosque of Damascus: Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture.

Contributor Bio:Boullata, Kamal
Kamal Boullata (1942-2019) was a painter and writer. The recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship in 1993 and 1994 and a Ford Foundation grant in 2001, Boullata was elected as a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2012. He is the author of four books on Palestinian art and the editor of several books on modern poetry and contemporary culture.

2019

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