Michael Rakowitz / drafted by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Marianna Vecellio.

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English, Italian Publisher: Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana editoriale, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: 213 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9788836643332
8836643337

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Genre/Form:

Exhibition catalogs.

DDC classification:

709 RAK 23

LOC classification:

N6537.R237 A4 2019

Summary: Iraqi-American artist Rakowitz reconstructed thousands of artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, and those more recently destroyed at Middle Eastern archaeological sites. Sculptor, detective, draughtsman, and some time chef, Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz (New York, 1973) takes his cue from the histories of buildings and objects to create enthralling environments. Moved by both the utopian aspirations and the disasters of modernity, Rakowitz's work focuses on place and time--modernist St. Louis, Art Nouveau Istanbul, post-Taliban Afghanistan, turn of the century Iraq. A consummate storyteller, he explores the fall out of conflict and exile while delighting in the vernacular and activist strategies that communities in extremis adopt to survive. This fully illustrated survey of his most important works is accompanied by an essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an interview with Michael Rakowitz by Iwona Blazwick, and a range of perspectives contributed by Habda Rashid, Nora Razian, Ella Shohat, and Marianna Vecellio.

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Title notes ( 6 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709 RAK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100643940

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The most comprehensive overview of the politically charged work of the Iraqi-American conceptual artist behind the acclaimed cookbook A House with a Date Palm Will Never Starve

Sculptor, draftsman and sometime chef, Chicago-based Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz (born 1973) takes his cue from the histories of buildings and objects to create enthralling environments, objects and interventions. Among his best-known works is his full-scale recreation of a winged bull sculpture from 700 BCE entirely clad in Iraqi date cans, installed in Trafalgar Square in London; another was his Enemy Kitchen , for which Rakowitz compiled Baghdad recipes with the help of his mother and then taught them to public audiences.

This fully illustrated survey of his most important works is accompanied by an essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an interview with Michael Rakowitz by Iwona Blazwick and a range of perspectives contributed by Habda Rashid, Nora Razian, Ella Shohat and Marianna Vecellio.

Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, June 4-August 25, 2019, at the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, October 7, 2019-January 19, 2020, and at the Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 11-August 30, 2020.

Bound.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211).

Iraqi-American artist Rakowitz reconstructed thousands of artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, and those more recently destroyed at Middle Eastern archaeological sites. Sculptor, detective, draughtsman, and some time chef, Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz (New York, 1973) takes his cue from the histories of buildings and objects to create enthralling environments. Moved by both the utopian aspirations and the disasters of modernity, Rakowitz's work focuses on place and time--modernist St. Louis, Art Nouveau Istanbul, post-Taliban Afghanistan, turn of the century Iraq. A consummate storyteller, he explores the fall out of conflict and exile while delighting in the vernacular and activist strategies that communities in extremis adopt to survive. This fully illustrated survey of his most important works is accompanied by an essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, an interview with Michael Rakowitz by Iwona Blazwick, and a range of perspectives contributed by Habda Rashid, Nora Razian, Ella Shohat, and Marianna Vecellio.

Text in English and Italian.