LibGuides: AUB Faculty and Staff Book Publications: 2019-Present: Fine Arts and Art History

Books by year

2023
2021

Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe by Sarah Schell
Publication Date: 2023
Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Office of the Dead was a familiar liturgical ritual, and its perceived importance and utility are evident in its regular inclusion in devotional compilations, which crossed the boundaries between lay and religious readers.

APA citation:

Schell, S. (2023). Image and the office of the dead in late medieval Europe: Regular, repellant, and redemptive death. Amsterdam University Press.

Contemporary art and capitalist modernization by Octavian Esanu (Editor)
Call Number: J 709.04:C761e
Publication Date: 2021
This book addresses the art historical category of "contemporary art" from a transregional perspective, but unlike other volumes of its kind, it focuses in on non-Western instantiations of "the contemporary." The book concerns itself with the historical conditions in which a radically new mode of artistic production, distribution, and consumption - called "contemporary art" - emerged in some countries of Eastern Europe, the post-Soviet republics of the USSR, India, Latin America, and the Middle East, following both local and broader sociopolitical processes of modernization and neoliberalization.

APA citation:

Esanu, O. (Ed.). (2021). Contemporary art and capitalist modernization: A transregional perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003044345 Available at UL

The postsocialist contemporary: the institutionalization of artistic practice in Eastern Europe after 1989 by Octavian Esanu; Amelia Jones (Series edited by); Marsha Meskimmon (Series edited by)
Call Number: J 701.03:E741p
Publication Date: 2021
This book discusses how network managers and artists participated in the construction of a new social order (mission to build a western ‘open society’ by means of art) by studying the programme's rise, evolution, impact and broader ideological and political consequences. Rather than recounting a history, its engages critically with 'contemporary art' as the aesthetic paradigm of late-capitalist market democracy.

APA citation:

Esanu, O. (2021). The postsocialist contemporary: The institutionalization of artistic practice in Eastern Europe after 1989. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526158017 Available at UL

Book chapters by year

APA citation:

Auji, H. (2022). Picturing knowledge: Visual literacy in nineteenth-century Arabic periodicals. In M. S. Graves & A. D. Seggerman (Eds.), Making modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean (pp. 73-93). Indiana University Press. https://iupress.org/9780253060341

APA citations:

Assaf, S.(2021). Speaking the unspeakable: On directing Wannous. In S. Mejcher-Atassi & R. Myers (Eds.), The theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous: A critical study of the Syrian playwright and public intellectual (pp. 142-156). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973182.009 Available at UL

Esanu, O. (2021). Art form and nation form: Contemporary art and the postnational condition. In O. Esanu (Ed.), Contemporary art and capitalist modernization: A transregional perspective (pp. 80-97). Routledge. Available at UL

Esanu, O. (2021). CarbonART 96 and the 6th kilometer, SCCA Chișinău 1996. In O. Esanu (Ed.), Contemporary art and capitalist modernization: A transregional perspective (pp. 184-205). Routledge. Available at UL

Esanu, O. (2021). Three questions for Terry Smith: Peripherality, postmodernity, multiplicity - Reconceiving the origins of contemporary art [interview with Terry Smith]. In O. Esanu (Ed.), Contemporary art and capitalist modernization: A transregional perspective (pp. 98-118). Routledge. Available at UL

Farhat, M. (2021). Beirut's great 'Umari Mosque: History, memory, and post-war reconstruction. In E. Baboula & L. Jessop (Eds.), Art and material culture in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds: Studies in honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd (pp. 205-237). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004457140_010 Available at UL

Franses, R. (2021). To not know God: Geometrical abstraction and visual theology in Islamic art. In E. Baboula & L. Jessop (Eds.), Art and material culture in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds: Studies in honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd (pp. 265-285). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004457140_012 Available at UL

Harutyunyan, A. (2021). The 3rd floor cultural movement, Yerevan 1987-1994. In O. Esanu (Ed.), Contemporary art and capitalist modernization: A transregional perspective (pp. 153-168). Routledge. Available at UL

Harutyunyan, A. (2021). Towards a historical understanding of post-Soviet presentism. In O. Esanu (Ed.), Contemporary art and capitalist modernization: A transregional perspective (pp. 17-30). Routledge. Available at UL

APA citation:

Assaf, S. (2020). No demand no supply: Documentary theatre transforming the mainstream media. In B. Rahimi (Ed.), Theater in the Middle East: Between performance and politics (pp. 143-158). Anthem Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx8b7k2.14 Available at UL