Walid Raad

Resource Information

The work Walid Raad represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Colby College Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Walid Raad

Statement of responsibility

Eva Respini ; with a contribution by Walid Raad and an essay by Finbarr Barry Flood

Creator

• Respini, Eva,
• Respini, Eva,

Contributor

• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),
• Flood, Finbarr Barry,
• Flood, Finbarr Barry,
• Museo Jumex,
• Museo Jumex,
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),
• Raad, Walid, 1967-
• Raad, Walid, 1967-
• Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.),
• Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.),

Author

• Respini, Eva,
• Respini, Eva,

Curator

• Respini, Eva,
• Respini, Eva,

Host institution

• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),
• Museo Jumex,
• Museo Jumex,
• Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.),
• Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, Mass.),
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),

Writer of added commentary

• Flood, Finbarr Barry,
• Flood, Finbarr Barry,

Subject

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• 1900-2099
• Raad, Walid, 1967-
• Raad, Walid, 1967-
• Raad, Walid, 1967- -- Exhibitions
• Raad, Walid, 1967- -- Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Art, Lebanese
• Art, Lebanese -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• Art, Lebanese -- 20th century -- Exhibitions
• Art, Lebanese -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
• Art, Lebanese -- 21st century -- Exhibitions
• Catalogs
• Catalogs

Genre

• Catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibitions

Language

eng

Summary

Lebanese artist Walid Raad is an influential voice in art from the Middle East. Published for his first comprehensive exhibition in the US, this catalogue surveys three decades of Raad's practice in photography, video and performance. Beginning with his groundbreaking project The Atlas Group (1989-2004), to his recent work on the history of art in the Arab world (2007-ongoing), it offers an overview of Raad's career and features his most momentous bodies of work. Raad explores the ways we represent war and history, casting doubt on the veracity of photographic and video documentation. Essays by scholars place Raad's art in the context of contemporary photography and video, as well as art made in Lebanon since the 1960s; provide an overview of Raad's performance lectures; and examine Raad's most recent bodies of work made in the Islamic galleries at the Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, which explore the history, collecting and display of historical and modern art and artifacts from the Arab world and Iran. A special contribution by Raad presents a fictional interview with multiple artists, curators and writers

Cataloging source

ERASA

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs