{"product_id":"the-sphinx-contemplating-napoleon-9781501363337","title":"The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGilane Tawadros\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and curator. She was the founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) in London which, over a decade, achieved an international reputation as a ground-breaking cultural agency at the leading edge of artistic and cultural debates nationally and internationally. She has written extensively on contemporary art and curated a number of important exhibitions in the UK and internationally. In 2012, she was the first art historian to be appointed to the prestigious Blanche, Edith and Irving Laurie Chair in Women's Studies, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is Chair of the Stuart Hall Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmongst pioneering rethink of the art history-culture status quo, Gilane’s writings illuminate the struggle to forge conceptual tackle for today’s diverse art world and cultural difference – critical voicing that emerges less from theorising than from “thinking through art practices”. * Sarat Maharaj, Professor of Visual Arts and Knowledge Systems, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden *\u003cbr\u003eBased on the author’s profound knowledge of the global contemporary art scene … this book provides a new art historical narrative, one that is more global, more inclusive and nuanced … A must read for students of contemporary art and visual culture, race, and the postcolonial body. * Salah M Hassan, Goldwin Smith Professor, Cornell University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eRichly illustrated, Gilane Tawadros’ beautifully observed book is a timely and prescient account of how representation remains a pivotal question for artists and society at large. Peppered with many delightful intercultural and intertextual references, \u003ci\u003eThe Sphinx \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eContemplating Napoleon\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read in our de-colonising times. * Sonia Boyce, artist and Professor of Black Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon: Global Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Difference \u003c\/i\u003estrikes a balance between seeing contemporary art on its own terms and understanding art within the terms set forth for it. When the latter is at odds with the former, Gilane Tawadros makes her greatest observations in a set of clear and evocative essays on a range of artists. All are superbly written, carefully argued down to the details and compelling to the end. Though the stated focus of “post-independence Egypt and post-war Britain” is maintained throughout, larger concerns of the value that art draws internationally is lucidly presented. This book continues Tawadros’ decades long project of internationalism in art. * Courtney J. Martin, Yale Center for British Art, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgements   Introduction   Part I: The Leftovers of Translation 1. But What is the Question? Art, Research and the Production of Knowledge 2. Extra-Extra: Interview with Raul Ortega Ayala 3. Dissonant Chorus 4. Shen Yuan: The Leftovers of Translation 5. Voices Off: Interview with Susan Hiller   Part II: The Banality of Difference 6. ‘We are the Martians…’ 7. Van Leo: Self-Portraits 8. Shirani Shahbazi: The Banality of Difference 9. A Case of Mistaken Identity: Notes from the Scene of the Crime  10. Electrifying Eve   Part III: Re-siting the City 11. The Real Me 12. Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting 13. Alfred’s Favourite Tree 14. The Leopard 15. Maps of Desire   Part IV: Studies in a Post-colonial body 16. The Revolution Stripped Bare 17. Studies in a Post-colonial Body 18. Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art   Part V: Relocating the Remains: History and Representation 19. Strangers and Barbarians: Representing Ourselves and Others 20. Telling Tales: Keith Piper’s \u003ci\u003eRelocating the Remains\u003c\/i\u003e 21. Sweet Oblivion 22. \u003ci\u003eGodville\u003c\/i\u003e: Interview with Omer Fast   Part VI: Going Global 23. Going Global: 4th International Istanbul Biennial 24. Detonations: Jonathan Hernández and the \u003ci\u003eRongwrong\u003c\/i\u003e series 25. Modern Europeans 26. Slipping Away (or Uncompliant Cartographies)   Part VII: Transmission Interrupted 27. Interruption in Four Acts, or Disappearing Irises, Broken-down Buses and Ceramic Citroens 28. Egypt at the Venice Biennale: 1967 and The Year That Changed               Everything       29. From Zero to Infinity: The Work of Adel Abdessemed       30. Reading (and Curating) from Right to Left       31. Dissonant Divas: Sonia Boyce, Sound and Collaboration       32. A Thousand and One  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739787309399,"sku":"9781501363337","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501363337.jpg?v=1720053143","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sphinx-contemplating-napoleon-9781501363337","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}