Iridescent Kuwait : Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century

• Tác giả: Laura Hindelang
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3110714661
• ISBN-13: 978-3110714739
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 700 The arts Fine and decorative arts
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (261 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 219862
• Chủ đề: 1. History of architecture; 2. History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; 3. History of other lands; 4. Man-made objects depicted in art (cityscapes, machines, etc); 5. Product design

Tóm tắt

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.