Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess: The Changing of Horses

In April 1968, ten months after the Arab defeat of the 1967 June War, Aref El-Rayess's Dimaʾ...
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Author: Natasha Gasparian
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Language: English
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Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess: The Changing of Horses by Gasparian, Natasha

Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess: The Changing of Horses

CHF 130.31

Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess: The Changing of Horses

CHF 130.31
Author: Natasha Gasparian
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In April 1968, ten months after the Arab defeat of the 1967 June War, Aref El-Rayess's Dimaʾ wa Hurriyya (Blood and Freedom) opened to the public in the exhibition hall of the L'Orient newspaper headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The 5th of June, or, The Changing of Horses, a realist mural painting on canvas, was the exhibition's centerpiece. With this artwork, El-Rayess declared his commitment to national liberation and socialist revolution. The Changing of Horses was presented and received as an allegory of political commitment, but the slips, silences, and repetitions in the public reception point to its excessive, disturbing, and fundamentally uncanny character. In Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess, the first comprehensive study of the work, Natasha Gasparian weaves together a social art history from the artist's writings, exhibition reviews, guestbook comments, personal correspondences and testimonies, as well as social, political, and aesthetic shifts, particularly as they related to the debates on commitment (iltizam) in the aftermath of the June 1967 war. By attempting to reconstruct this history of the artwork and tracing the caesuras in the discourse around it, Gasparian exposes the social antagonism that is repressed and obfuscated in the idealized narrative sustained by El-Rayess and his audiences. She argues that the oversight in the reception--the critics' and audiences' inability to see--attests to the delay in grasping the work historically and signals its avant-gardism.

Author: Natasha Gasparian
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 11/13/2020
Pages: 78
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d
ISBN: 9781785274626

About the Author

Natasha Gasparian is an art historian and critic. She has collaborated on writing, research, and curatorial projects with numerous institutions in Beirut, Lebanon, including Agial, Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut Art Center, and the Saradar Collection.


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