Mona Khazindar

Gebundenes Buch

Visions from Abroad

Historical and Contemporary Representations of Arabia

Herausgeber: Khazindar, Mona

Beschreibung

Arabia, with its holy cities in Hejaz and its Bedouin-populated deserts, holds a special place in the Western imaginary. Khazindar explores this fantasy, presenting Saudi Arabia as it was seen by visitors born outside the peninsula.

Autor

Art historian Mona Khazindar is an expert on Arab visual arts in the modern and contemporary period, formerly director general of the Institut du monde for which she was devoted for more than 20 years, and curator of a large number of very important exhibitions. A graduate of the Sorbonne and perfectly trilingual in English, Arabic and French, she has access to all the texts written on Arabia in every era as well as finely honed knowledge of the iconography of this part of the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Skira
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 246mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1792g
• ISBN-13: 9788857239460
• ISBN-10: 8857239462
• Artikelnr.: 54478090