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  1. Iridescent Kuwait : Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

    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... more

     

    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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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110714739; 9783110714661
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    Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Man-made objects depicted in art (cityscapes, machines, etc); Product design; History of architecture; History of other lands
    Other subjects: Visual culture; oil; modernity; Kuwait.
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (261 p.)
  2. Iridescent Kuwait
    Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston ; OAPEN FOUNDATION, The Hague

    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... more

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    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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  3. Iridescent Kuwait
    petro-modernity and urban visual culture since the mid-twentieth century
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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