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This is the first book to present a full account of Adnan's fascinating life and work. Tackling the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
List of contents
Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chronology; Solo and Group Exhibitions; Index
About the author
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a contributing editor for Bidoun and writes regularly for Artforum, Bookforum, Aperture, and Frieze. She has traveled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa to cover the relationship between contemporary art and political upheaval, writing for newspapers, magazines, journals, and books. She was a fellow in the USC Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Program in 2007, and won a grant from the Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program in 2014. She is working on a book about contemporary art in postwar Lebanon, to be published by Kaph Books in 2019.
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This is the first book to present a full account of Adnan’s fascinating life and work. Tackling the complexities of her subject with skill and insight, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie unpacks Adnan's multi-layered career to capture the full scope of her artistic endeavours and impressive achievements.
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'Etel Adnan's vivid and stark paintings explore elemental landscapes. Her oeuvre is born of a unique sense of place and displacement, and both infuse her paintings. Her art will appear to be both concrete and abstract, and might represent presence, or the presence of lost objects. As both a poet and a painter, Etel Adnan seeks to establish languages that entail the visual, say, fusing "son" and "sun". Her imagination is phenomenal.'
