Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World: Part 1Volume 1Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)
Five-piece box set, 4-color, saddle-stitch binding, softcover Design by Michael Worthington Published by California Institute of the Arts/REDCAT
This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Modern and Contemporary Art in the Arab World/Part IVolume 1Chapter 1 (Beirut: 1992-2005)A project by Walid Raad at REDCAT from April 10 - June 14, 2009.
Walid Ra'ad presents five sections from the first chapter of the first volume of the first part of this work, sections about the history of art in Beirut between 1992 and 2005, a period inadequately referred to in Lebanon and elsewhere as the post-war period. In another way, they also figure as the five stage sets for a forthcoming multi-act play about this history. The five artworks presented here: Preface Title 23; On Walid Sadek’s Love Is Blind (Modern Art, Oxford, UK, 2006); Index XXVI Artists; The Atlas Group (1989-2004); and Appendix XVIII Plates 88-108_.
