Sculptures of Jeddah: An Encounter with a Rare Collection of 20th-Century Public Art - Hardcover

Dercon, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861543387 ISBN 13: 9781861543387

Verlag: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2015

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"As Ahmed Mater's photographs in the book Sculptures of Jeddah show, this ancient city near Mecca is the home to one of the world's most spectacular arrays of open-air modern sculpture. ... Victor Vassarely, Joan Miro, Jean Arp - they all got the call from Jeddah." --Jonathan Jones, The Guardian

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40 years ago, Jeddah mayor Mohamed Said Farsi transformed his city through an urban development scheme that placed contemporary art at its core. This was public art on a grand scale, designed 'to bring delight to the citizen, to give a sense of wonder and stir a sense of history'. Works were commissioned from the world's greatest sculptors and this book documents the restoration and relocation of some 26 major works to a new Open Air Museum. It allows the world a unique glimpse into a city not easily visited and shows Saudi Arabia as a place of vision and innovation in art.

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• Verlag: Booth-Clibborn Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1861543387
• ISBN 13: 9781861543387
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192