Delwedd Flaen

Iridescent Kuwait

Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum’s role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies of modernization, political repres...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Prif Awdur: Hindelang, Laura
Fformat: Online
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: De Gruyter 2022
Pynciau:
Visual culture
oil
modernity
Kuwait.
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGP Man-made objects depicted in art
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKP Product design
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regions
Mynediad Ar-lein:ONIX_20220111_9783110714739_93
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
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Crynodeb:Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum’s role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies of modernization, political representation, and oil. The notion of iridescence, the ambiguous yet mesmerizing effect of a rainbowlike color play, serves as analytical-aesthetic concept to discuss petroleum’s ambiguous contribution to modernity: both promise of prosperity and destructive force of socio-cultural and ecological environments. Covering a broad spectrum of historical material from aerial and color photography, visual arts, postage stamps, and master plans to architecture and also contemporary art from the Gulf, it dismantles petro- modernity’s visual legacy.

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