art book cologne GmbH & Co. KG
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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Kunsthaus Bregenz |
Year | 2017 |
Cover | Pop-Up |
Language | English, German, arab. |
ISBN | 978-3-96098-046-9 |
Pages | 7 |
Weight | 523 g |
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Author(s) | Omar Berrada, Thomas D.Trummer |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Kunsthaus Bregenz |
Article ID | art-42440 |
The discussion around foreignness and otherness is currently heated. Debate is shaped by waves of refugees from the Middle East, and humanitarian catastrophes in the Mediterranean and along the smuggler routes. Islamic terror attacks take place in Europe. At the heart of the discourse is the contact and differences between cultures, East and West, not least the claims to supremacy of religions and legal systems. Art cannot solve problems, but it can open perspectives that shed another light on these existential questions.
The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky tells the story of the crusades, based on a book by the French-Libyan author Amin Maalouf, portrayed from the perspective of Arabian sources. Shawky became famous over night with the first part, "The Horror Show File" (2010). The settings are Damascus, Mosul, Jerusalem and Aleppo-once again the trouble spots of today.