Uninterrupted Fugue: Art by Kamal Boullata

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Uninterrupted Fugue offers a selection of critical essays about the art of Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata, covering 40 years of his career. Written by an international constellation of critics, art historians and museum curators coming together for the first time in one book, they reveal a wide range of analytical perspectives on the unfolding of abstract art in exile. Readers interested in contemporary art beyond the Western canon, will find in this lavishly illustrated book rare insights into an aesthetic where frontiers are crossed between verbal and visual expression, between modernity and traditions rooted in Byzantine and Islamic art.

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"Uninterrupted Fugue: Art by Kamal Boullata is a collection of ten essays by a distinguished roster of art historians, critics, and curators, including such luminaries as historian Hans Belting, postcolonial theorist Jean Fisher, and literary critic Abdelkebir Khatibi. . . . These beautifully executed books expertly and artfully track the long arc of the painter as he continuously makes sense anew of the dynamics at play in both his life and his work--belonging and exile, the autobiographical and the historical, the word and geometry, abstraction and color, and writing and painting."-- "Journal of Palestine Studies"

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Burcu Dogramaci is professor of art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt Mnchen.