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AFGHANISTAN AU RISQUE DE L ART -L-

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L'Afghanistan vit depuis quarante ans au rythme des guerres, des destructions du patrimoine, des attentats, des migrations. Des artistes autodidactes - car ils ont grandi sous le régime des talibans, donc sans avoir vu d'images - ou formés dans des pays de migrations semblent être au seuil de tous les possibles, sans héritage à assumer, ni classicisme avec lequel rompre.

Kharmohra - du nom d'une glande extraite du cou de l'âne qui, en séchant, se durcit comme de la pierre et, dit-on, procure le bonheur tout en réalisant les voeux les plus intimes - donne à voir cette création contemporaine, loin des attentes romantiques souvent portées en Occident vis-à-vis de l'Afghanistan.

For forty years, life in Afghanistan has been shaped by wars, the destruction of heritage, terrorist attacks, everyday fears and hopes and migrations. Today artists in this country - either self-taught having grown up under a Taliban regime that banned images, or trained during their exile - have no heritage to take on and no classical rules to break : anything seems possible.

Kharmohra is named after a gland taken from a donkey's neck that, on drying, becomes as hard as stone and is said to bring happiness by making the owner's most secret dreams come true. It shows contemporary Afghan art that is a long way from the romantic expectations with which Westerners often approach the country.

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Authors Agnès Devictor, Guilda Chahverdi, Charles Penwarden, COLLECTIF, Guilda Chahverdi
Assisted by Guilda Chahverdi (Editor), Agnès Devictor (Editor)
Publisher Actes Sud
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 13.11.2019
 
EAN 9782330128302
ISBN 978-2-330-12830-2
Weight 472 g
Series Beaux livres
Arts
Beaux arts
BEAUX LIVRES (A
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history

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