Recent!
AMCA announces its first international conference:
Modern Arab Art: Objects, Histories, and Methodologies
This two-day conference will be hosted in collaboration with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, and will take place in conjunction with the Museum’s inaugural events from December 8-11 2010.
The Museum’s aim is to use their preeminent collection of modern and contemporary Arab art as a catalyst for critical and creative exchanges across diverse audiences. This conference will bring together both established and emerging scholars working throughout the world, in order to interrogate potent issues of concern that continue to define and shape the field of modern Arab art today. It aims to historicize and contextualize the production of modern Arab art and modernity—and by extension the contemporary—through thematic and historiographic inquiries into the field.
We are now accepting abstracts for the following panels:
Producing the Modern Artist: Education and the Fine Arts
Picturing the Individual and the Nation: Portraiture and Landscape
Writing about Art: Art Criticism and Its Various Practices
3 panels dedicated to Research in Progress
To be considered to present a paper in the one of the above panels, please submit a 250-word abstract to info@amcainternational.org by July 30 2010. Final papers will be submitted to panel discussants and chairs by November 1 2010. Travel and accommodations to be covered by the Museum. Select papers may be published.
New!
AMCA is proud to announce that we recently received affiliation from the College Art Association
Visit our new review section of exhibitions, catalogues, and books...
We welcome individual book and exhibition reviews (no more than 900 words) and/or review essays (no more than 2000 words) on topics related to the field of modern and contemporary art of the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey. We encourage submissions from individuals of any rank or affiliation, and encourage submissions from graduate students. All review authors must be AMCA members. Reviews can be submitted in Arabic, English, or French.
All submissions undergo an internal editorial screen and review process. Submissions are accepted on an on-going basis.
If you are the author of a book, curator of an exhibition, or someone who wishes to submit a review, please contact Sarah Rogers: info@amcainternational.org
Members, please send your recent activities to be announced on our website: info@amcainternational.org
Please visit
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2008/amca
for an interview with Nada Shabout.
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Welcome to AMCA. An affilliate organization of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), AMCA aims to advance the study of modern and contemporary art throughout the Arab world, Iran and Turkey.