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Nabil Mousa : breaking the chains / by Mousa, Nabil,1966-artist,interviewee.(CARDINAL)873681; Cauman, John,contributor.(CARDINAL)228145; Riley, Charles A.,II,contributor.(CARDINAL)274287; Salamatina, Oksana,editor,interviewer.(CARDINAL)873656; Skira (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)732542;
"Using color in unexpected ways, Mousa's work is always framed by hope for greater equality, no matter how naive or impossible that might seem in the face of ever-challenging political and religious differences." - Publisher."I am an artist. I am a Syrian. I am an American. I am an Arab. I was born a Christian, but I adhere to no organized religion. I am an immigrant. I am a gay man. I am a husband and a son. I am an activist. I am a critic. I am a peacemaker. All of these descriptors inform my diverse artistic practice. Through the years, I have developed a vocabulary of symbols, colors, cultural references, and gestural mark-making that I use to reflect upon politics, world events, societal mores, culture, and beauty. I mine my personal story to produce commentary about the world, as well as to create formal works of art. I draw upon readily identifiable references such as the American flag or pages from the Torah, Bible, and Quran to support my narrative and to draw upon as visual forms. I look outward to the world and inward to my spirit. I tend to work in series. Some explore concepts of balance and harmony emanating, for instance, from my studies of meditation and Tantric practices. I have a deep interest in the beauty of Arab visual culture--the elegance of Arabic calligraphy and the formal qualities of "arabesque" design. However, when I echo these exquisite forms in my paintings and prints, it's for more than art for art's sake. In fact, these motifs, along with cultural signifiers such as the burka, are highly charged. They are built upon the memories of September 11, 2001 and current global politics. As an Arab-American, I have personally experienced the heightened tensions, the suspicions, even the outright hostilities between and within the Western World and the Middle East. The on-going war in Syria and the American debates about immigration, continue to fuel these concerns. Three major religions-Christianity, Islam, and Judaism-teach tolerance and mutual respect. Yet, they are also notable for their instances of antagonism, and at times their ill will and violent acts within and across denominations. At the same time, I am inspired by the resiliency of the Syrian people and their abilities to find joy despite the despair of the situation in which they live. I am equally moved by the Palestinian people, and their ability to survive and maintain dignity in a situation that offers few options. For many years, I was a closeted gay man. When I came out to my family, my parents rejected me-a trauma that continues to haunt me many years later. I am now happily married, having lived through the struggles to legalize gay marriage in the United States. Ultimately, and as a citizen of the United States, I enjoy the privilege of security, safety, and dignity as a man and as a human being. I am also privileged to use my art as a platform to fight for justice and equality. Ultimately, my paintings, sculptures, prints and performances braid together my personal narrative as a gay man, my identity as an Arab-American, my solidarity with people of the Middle East, and my commitment to activism. I make art in the name of social justice, while I reflect upon my journey as an artist and as a human being. " - Artist statement from:
Subjects: Catalogs.; Interviews.; Mousa, Nabil, 1966-; Mousa, Nabil, 1966-; Arab American art; Arab American art; Arab American artists; Arab American artists; Art, American; Art, American; Art, Arab; Art, Arab; Art, Modern; Art, Modern; Art, Syrian; Art, Syrian; Emigration and immigration in art.; Gay artists.; Identity (Psychology) in art.; Politics in art.; Gay artists.; LGBTQ+ artists.; LGBTQ+ arts.;
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Michael Rakowitz : Nimrud / by Rakowitz, Michael,artist.(CARDINAL)881381; Adler, Tracy L.,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)785339; Alcauskas, Katherine D.,editor,curator,contributor.(CARDINAL)879760; Sahakian, Rijin,contributor.; Distributed Art Publishers,distributor.(CARDINAL)784868; Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art,publisher,host institution.(CARDINAL)785338;
Includes bibliographical references.Using Arab-language newspapers and wrappers from food products imported from the Middle East, Iraqi American artist Michael Rakowitz (born 1973) has recreated to scale Room H from the Northwest Palace of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud (Kalhu). Part of a reception suite, Room H was originally lined with seven-foot-tall carved stone reliefs, including an inscription detailing Ashurnasirpal II's achievements and winged male figures, many of which have been removed by Western archaeologists over the last 150 years. Here, Rakowitz has recreated only those panels that were in situ in Room H when the remains of the palace were destroyed by the jihadist group the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2015. Areas from which the reliefs had already been removed by 19th-century archaeologists are left blank, resulting in what Rakowitz calls a palimpsest of different moments of removal."Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973, Long Island, NY) is an Iraqi-American artist working at the intersection of problem-solving and troublemaking. His work has appeared in venues worldwide including dOCUMENTA (13), P.S.1, MoMA, MassMOCA, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Palais de Tokyo, the 16th Biennale of Sydney, the 10th and 14th Istanbul Biennials, Sharjah Biennial 8, Tirana Biennale, National Design Triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt, Transmediale 05, FRONT Triennial in Cleveland, and CURRENT: LA Public Art Triennial. He was awarded the 2018-2020 Fourth Plinth commission in London's Trafalgar Square. He is the recipient of the 2020 Nasher Prize; the 2018 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts; a 2012 Tiffany Foundation Award; a 2008 Creative Capital Grant; a Sharjah Biennial Jury Award; a 2006 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Architecture and Environmental Structures; the 2003 Dena Foundation Award, and the 2002 Design 21 Grand Prix from UNESCO. Solo projects and exhibitions include Creative Time, Tate Modern in London, The Wellin Museum of Art, MCA Chicago, Lombard Freid Gallery and Jane Lombard Gallery in New York, SITE Santa Fe, Galerie Barbara Wien in Berlin, Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, Malm̲ Konsthall, Tensta Konsthall, and Kunstraum Innsbruck, and Waterfronts - England's Creative Coast. From 2019-2020, a survey of Rakowitz's work traveled from Whitechapel Gallery in London, to Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea in Torino, to the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai. Upcoming solo exhibition venues include Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin; Stavanger Art Museum, Norway; and Green Art Gallery, Dubai. He was recently granted a commission for a public project on the topic of Archaeology and Migration Flows for the Municipality of The Hague. Rakowitz lives and works in Chicago." -- Biography from:
Subjects: Exhibition catalogs.; Rakowitz, Michael; Northwest Palace (Calah); Arab American art; Arab American artists; Arab American arts; Art, American; Art, Modern; Artists; Bas-relief; Bas-relief; Collage; Conceptual art; Jewish art; Jewish artists; Jewish arts; Jewish sculpture; Mixed media (Art); Sculptors; Sculpture, American; Sculpture, Modern;
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Still looking : essays on American art / by Updike, John.(CARDINAL)138921;
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : an oil on canvas -- The American face -- Nature his only instructor -- "O beautiful for spacious skies" -- Heade storms -- Epic Homer -- The ache in Eakins -- Whistler in the dark -- "Better than nature" -- Walls that talk too much -- Street Arab -- Evangel of the lens -- "A lone left thing" -- O pioneer! -- Logic is beautiful -- Hopper's polluted silence -- Early Sunday morning -- Jackson whole -- Iconic Andy -- Index.
Subjects: Art, American.;
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Arab American encyclopedia / by Lee, Michelle.(CARDINAL)627642; Ameri, Anan.(CARDINAL)658282; Ramey, Dawn.(CARDINAL)658283; Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services.(CARDINAL)658284;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Who are the Arab Americans? -- Early history -- Modern history -- Immigration to the United States -- Community profiles -- Language -- Religion -- Work and money -- Education -- Family and gender roles -- Holidays and celebrations -- Health and environmental issues -- Civil rights and social justice -- Organizations and political activism -- Music -- Fine arts -- Theater, storytelling, and traditional arts -- Literature -- Media.Chapters arranged by subject present information about the history, immigration, economics, languages, religion, holidays, literature, education, jobs, politics, and other aspects of Arab Americans.
Subjects: Encyclopedias.; Arab Americans; Arab Americans;
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The day our world changed : children's art of 9/11 / by Goodman, Robin F.(CARDINAL)655482; Goodman, Robin F.(CARDINAL)655482; Henderson, Andrea.(CARDINAL)205558; Almontaser, Debbie.(CARDINAL)541265; Museum of the City of New York.(CARDINAL)161593; New York University.Child Study Center.(CARDINAL)672877;
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Child psychology.; Children's art.; Terrorism in art.;
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Kahlil Gibran: wings of thought : the people's philosopher / by Ghougassian, Joseph P.,author.; Gibran, Kahlil,1883-1931,author.(CARDINAL)145300; Philosophical Library, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)873572;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236)."Kahlil Gibran, known in Arabic as Gibran Khalil Gibran, was born January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Lebanon, which at the time was part of Syria and part of the Ottoman Empire. He was the youngest son of Khalil Sa'd Jubran, a tax collector eventually imprisoned for embezzlement, and Kamila Jubran, whose father was a clergyman in the Maronite Christian Church. In 1885, Gibran emigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States, where they settled in the large Syrian and Lebanese community in Boston, Massachusetts. It was there that Gibran learned English and enrolled in art classes. His mother supported the family as a seamstress and by peddling linens. At the age of 15, Gibran was sent by his mother to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend a Maronite school. He returned to Boston in 1902. In that year and the one that followed, Gibran's sister, Sultana, half-brother, Bhutros, and mother died of tuberculosis and cancer, respectively. His remaining living sister, Marianna, supported herself and Gibran as a dressmaker. In 1904, Gibran began publishing articles in an Arabic-language newspaper and also had his first public exhibit of his drawings, which were championed by the Boston photographer Fred Holland Day. Gibran modeled for Day, who was known for his photographs of boys and young men. It was through Day that Gibran's artwork attracted the attention of a woman nine years his senior named Mary Haskell, who ran an all-girls school. Haskell became Gibran's lifelong patron, paying for him to study art at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1908. There, Gibran met the sculptor August Rodin, who reportedly once called him "the William Blake of the twentieth century." Gibran's hundreds of drawings and paintings remain highly regarded. Haskell also enabled Gibran's move to New York City in 1911, where he settled in a one-room apartment in bohemian Greenwich Village. At a lunch in the Village, Gibran met Alfred Knopf, who would become his publisher. In 1918, Gibran's book of poems and parables The Madman was published. In 1923, Knopf published what would become Gibran's most famous work, The Prophet. Though not met with critical praise or early success--the book was never reviewed by the New York Times, for example, and sold only twelve hundred copies in its first year--the book became a phenomenon. The Prophet has now sold more than ten million copies, making Gibran one of the best-selling poets in the world. Three years later, Gibran published Sand and Foam (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of poems and aphorisms. The Biblically inspired The Prophet was especially popular in the 1960s. About this, the translator and Middle East historian Juan Cole said, "Many people turned away from the establishment of the Church to Gibran. He offered a dogma-free universal spiritualism as opposed to orthodox religion, and his vision of the spiritual was not moralistic. In fact, he urged people to be non-judgmental." Gibran was active in a New York-based Arab American literary group called the Pen League, a subset of the Mahjar movement, whose members promoted writing in Arabic and English. Throughout his life he would publish nine books in Arabic and eight in English, which ruminate on love, longing, and death, and explore religious themes. He died of cirrhosis of the liver on April 10, 1931, in New York City." -- Biogrpahy from:
Subjects: Biographies.; Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931; Mysticism in literature.; Lebanese American authors; Arab American authors; Authors, Arab; Authors, Arab; Authors, Lebanese; Mystics;
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Shadows over Baker Street / by Pelan, John.(CARDINAL)704987; Reaves, Michael.(CARDINAL)733385;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Horror fiction.; Holmes, Sherlock; Detective and mystery stories, American.; Detective and mystery stories, English.; Horror tales, American.; Horror tales, English.; Private investigators;
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The voice of the Master / by Gibran, Kahlil,1883-1931,author.(CARDINAL)145300; Ferris, Anthony R.,translator.; Citadel Press,publisher.;
"Kahlil Gibran, known in Arabic as Gibran Khalil Gibran, was born January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Lebanon, which at the time was part of Syria and part of the Ottoman Empire. He was the youngest son of Khalil Sa'd Jubran, a tax collector eventually imprisoned for embezzlement, and Kamila Jubran, whose father was a clergyman in the Maronite Christian Church. In 1885, Gibran emigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States, where they settled in the large Syrian and Lebanese community in Boston, Massachusetts. It was there that Gibran learned English and enrolled in art classes. His mother supported the family as a seamstress and by peddling linens. At the age of 15, Gibran was sent by his mother to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend a Maronite school. He returned to Boston in 1902. In that year and the one that followed, Gibran's sister, Sultana, half-brother, Bhutros, and mother died of tuberculosis and cancer, respectively. His remaining living sister, Marianna, supported herself and Gibran as a dressmaker. In 1904, Gibran began publishing articles in an Arabic-language newspaper and also had his first public exhibit of his drawings, which were championed by the Boston photographer Fred Holland Day. Gibran modeled for Day, who was known for his photographs of boys and young men. It was through Day that Gibran's artwork attracted the attention of a woman nine years his senior named Mary Haskell, who ran an all-girls school. Haskell became Gibran's lifelong patron, paying for him to study art at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1908. There, Gibran met the sculptor August Rodin, who reportedly once called him "the William Blake of the twentieth century." Gibran's hundreds of drawings and paintings remain highly regarded. Haskell also enabled Gibran's move to New York City in 1911, where he settled in a one-room apartment in bohemian Greenwich Village. At a lunch in the Village, Gibran met Alfred Knopf, who would become his publisher. In 1918, Gibran's book of poems and parables The Madman was published. In 1923, Knopf published what would become Gibran's most famous work, The Prophet. Though not met with critical praise or early success--the book was never reviewed by the New York Times, for example, and sold only twelve hundred copies in its first year--the book became a phenomenon. The Prophet has now sold more than ten million copies, making Gibran one of the best-selling poets in the world. Three years later, Gibran published Sand and Foam (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of poems and aphorisms. The Biblically inspired The Prophet was especially popular in the 1960s. About this, the translator and Middle East historian Juan Cole said, "Many people turned away from the establishment of the Church to Gibran. He offered a dogma-free universal spiritualism as opposed to orthodox religion, and his vision of the spiritual was not moralistic. In fact, he urged people to be non-judgmental." Gibran was active in a New York-based Arab American literary group called the Pen League, a subset of the Mahjar movement, whose members promoted writing in Arabic and English. Throughout his life he would publish nine books in Arabic and eight in English, which ruminate on love, longing, and death, and explore religious themes. He died of cirrhosis of the liver on April 10, 1931, in New York City." -- Biography from:
Subjects: Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931; Spiritual healing.; Grief in literature.; Lebanese American authors.; Arab American authors.; Authors, Arab; Authors, Arab; Authors, Lebanese; Lebanese literature.; Arabic literature;
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Last of the gladiators : a memoir of love, redemption, and the mob / by LaRossa, James M.,Jr.,author.;
Includes index.Book one: Love & madness -- Book two: Lawyers, guns and money -- Book three: The old man and the sea -- Epilogue."From the 1960s until the turn of the 21st century, New York City was the world's epicenter of organized and white-collar crime. During those four decades, the most feared Mafia chiefs, assassins, defrocked stockbrokers, Orthodox Jewish money-launderers, and Arab bankers sought the counsel of one man: my father, Jimmy LaRossa, a Kennedy-era prosecutor who became the defense lawyer of first resort in the big, important, highly publicized cases for four full action-packed decades. On January 30, 2009, I snuck my famous and mortally ill father from New York Presbyterian Hospital to a waiting Medevac jet, where we flew in secret to a place few people would look for two die-hard New Yorkers: a town in Southern California aptly named Manhattan Beach. During our five years in exile, we, "the LaRossa boys" as we came to be known, made our mark as a most irreverent and unrivaled father/son duo. While I cooked him his favorite Italian dishes and kept him alive using the most up-to-date equipment and drugs, he recounted his legendary courtroom exploits. Not only is [this] a memoir about some of the seminal legal events of a generation, but it's also a love story between a father and son -- a theme not often seen in American arts and letters. Not until I wrote that story, though, did I realize that I had not saved my father. He, in fact, saved me. I became a better man and father thanks to him -- a more joyous, grateful, and grounded soul. Jimmy was, and always will be, my "true north."" --
Subjects: Biographies.; LaRossa, James, 1931-2014.; LaRossa, James, 1931-2014; Fathers and sons.; Criminal defense lawyers; Lawyers;
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Kahlil Gibran : his life and world / by Gibran, Jean,author.(CARDINAL)160104; Gibran, Kahlil,1922-2008,author.(CARDINAL)160103; New York Graphic Society,publisher.(CARDINAL)152493;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 432-437) and index.Poor in Besharri -- A city wilderness -- The sick little end of the century -- The young sheik -- Miss Beabody -- Pegasus harnessed to an ash-wagon -- A galley of gracious and novel heads -- Strange music -- The presence of she-angel -- Le jeune ecrivain arabe -- Talk of marriage -- A concord soul -- A three-cornered friendship -- The birth of a legend -- Conquering New York -- Learning to think in English -- The war years -- The prophet -- Arrabitah: the pen-bond -- No longer apart -- Cosmopolite -- The last years."Kahlil Gibran, known in Arabic as Gibran Khalil Gibran, was born January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Lebanon, which at the time was part of Syria and part of the Ottoman Empire. He was the youngest son of Khalil Sa'd Jubran, a tax collector eventually imprisoned for embezzlement, and Kamila Jubran, whose father was a clergyman in the Maronite Christian Church. In 1885, Gibran emigrated with his mother and siblings to the United States, where they settled in the large Syrian and Lebanese community in Boston, Massachusetts. It was there that Gibran learned English and enrolled in art classes. His mother supported the family as a seamstress and by peddling linens. At the age of 15, Gibran was sent by his mother to Beirut, Lebanon, to attend a Maronite school. He returned to Boston in 1902. In that year and the one that followed, Gibran's sister, Sultana, half-brother, Bhutros, and mother died of tuberculosis and cancer, respectively. His remaining living sister, Marianna, supported herself and Gibran as a dressmaker. In 1904, Gibran began publishing articles in an Arabic-language newspaper and also had his first public exhibit of his drawings, which were championed by the Boston photographer Fred Holland Day. Gibran modeled for Day, who was known for his photographs of boys and young men. It was through Day that Gibran's artwork attracted the attention of a woman nine years his senior named Mary Haskell, who ran an all-girls school. Haskell became Gibran's lifelong patron, paying for him to study art at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1908. There, Gibran met the sculptor August Rodin, who reportedly once called him "the William Blake of the twentieth century." Gibran's hundreds of drawings and paintings remain highly regarded. Haskell also enabled Gibran's move to New York City in 1911, where he settled in a one-room apartment in bohemian Greenwich Village. At a lunch in the Village, Gibran met Alfred Knopf, who would become his publisher. In 1918, Gibran's book of poems and parables The Madman was published. In 1923, Knopf published what would become Gibran's most famous work, The Prophet. Though not met with critical praise or early success--the book was never reviewed by the New York Times, for example, and sold only twelve hundred copies in its first year--the book became a phenomenon. The Prophet has now sold more than ten million copies, making Gibran one of the best-selling poets in the world. Three years later, Gibran published Sand and Foam (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of poems and aphorisms. The Biblically inspired The Prophet was especially popular in the 1960s. About this, the translator and Middle East historian Juan Cole said, "Many people turned away from the establishment of the Church to Gibran. He offered a dogma-free universal spiritualism as opposed to orthodox religion, and his vision of the spiritual was not moralistic. In fact, he urged people to be non-judgmental." Gibran was active in a New York-based Arab American literary group called the Pen League, a subset of the Mahjar movement, whose members promoted writing in Arabic and English. Throughout his life he would publish nine books in Arabic and eight in English, which ruminate on love, longing, and death, and explore religious themes. He died of cirrhosis of the liver on April 10, 1931, in New York City." -- Biogrpahy from:
Subjects: Biographies.; Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931.; Lebanese American authors; Arab American authors; Authors, Arab; Authors, Arab; Authors, Lebanese; Mystics; Wounds and injuries.; Accidents.;
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