The Anthem Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey series publishes scholarly biographies of art works from the region. Each publication traces the historical trajectory of an individual art work, from the circumstances of production (including artist’s biography and socio-cultural context of place) through its exhibition history with collectors and museums. This series is published in collaboration with The Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA).
Series Editor
Sarah Rogers – AMCA & Middlebury College, USA
Nada Shabout – AMCA & University of North Texas, USA
Proposals
We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works from emerging and established scholars that meet the criteria of our series. We make prompt editorial decisions. Our titles are published in print and e-book editions and are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. Should you wish to send in a proposal, please contact us at: [email protected].
Cynthia J. Becker
This book examines how Algerian artist Denis Martinez, particularly through 7 murs revisités (1989), drew on Amazigh art and other marginalized visual forms to articulate alternative forms of belonging in postcolonial Algeria. By integrating these traditions into modern painting, Martinez challenged nationalist frameworks and reimagined Algerian art as a practice of cultural recognition and inclusion.
Paperback
9781839998348
January 2027
£ 20.99 / $ 24.95
Tina Barouti
Resisting from Morocco’s Margins explores the socio-political context in which Ahmed Amrani’s oil-on-paper painting Protesta (1969) was made, specifically, the Rif Revolts of the late 1950s.
Paperback
9781839993596
October 2027
£ 20.99 / $ 24.95
Meriam Soltan
This scholarly biography explores the act of bearing witness through the politically charged, mural-scale art of Lebanese-Americanactivist and neo-expressionist, Nabil Kanso.
Paperback
9781839989636
May 2024
£ 20.99 / $ 24.99
Natasha Gasparian
In her study of Aref El-Rayess’s The 5th of June, or, The Changing of Horses, Natasha Gasparian reveals that the picture was presented and received, allegorically or metaphysically, as an idealized narrative of national liberation. By tracing the caesuras and slips in discourse, she reconstructs an alternative reading of the artwork’s uncanny yet historically determinate character.
Paperback
9781785274626
November 2020
£ 35.00 / $ 59.95