Dia Al-Azzawi
A Retrospective From 1963 Until Tomorrow
- A look at the progressive work of artist Dia Al- Azzawi
- Long celebrated for its vibrant 13 colour and vivacious style
Dia Al-Azzawi’s work, long celebrated for its vibrant 13 colour and vivacious style, came in on the tail winds of the early Pioneers movement in Iraq that arose in the mid-twentieth century and flourished in the 1940s-1960s. Al-Azzawi, some decades younger than the Pioneers and the related Baghdad Group for Modern Art, followed in their impressive and ground-breaking footsteps, emerging as a significant artist in his own right in the 1960s. The last quarter of the twentieth century and the works of the next generation of artists that developed, especially in the era of the international embargo against Iraq and the US-UK war of 2003 and its aftermath, were heavily represented in Al-Azzawi’s work, and his persistent references to the Mesopotamian past. In these works, and in his practices, this past had a tenacious continuity that he saw as part of the Iraqi present, co-existing with it rather than merely quoted and referenced within a separate modern world of art. In Al-Azzawi’s recent work, the utilisation of the past becomes a strong political statement against war and occupation, against the destruction of his ancient land.
- Publisher
- Silvana
- ISBN
- 9788836639052
- Published
- 6th Aug 2018
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Territory
- UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Iceland, Germany, Eastern Europe, & Austria. Arab States non-exclusive
- Size
- 270 mm x 220 mm
- Pages
- 496 Pages
- Illustrations
- 400 color
- Name of series
- Contemporary Art
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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