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Item Number: 136506
Title: Sculptures of Jeddah: Twentieth-Century Sculpture in the Arabian Peninsula
Author: Jameel, Art
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781861543387
Description: London: Booth-Clibborn, 2015. 31cm., hardcover, 276pp. with numerous color plates. Summary: Forty years ago, Jeddah’s new mayor, Mohamed Said Farsi decided to transform his city through an urban development scheme that placed contemporary art at its core. This was public art on a grand scale, designed ‘to bring delight to the citizen, to give a sense of wonder and stir a sense of history. Works were commissioned from many of the world’s greatest contemporary sculptors, including Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro and César, as well as some of the best sculptors of the Middle East. The Sculptures of Jeddah documents the restoration and relocation of some 26 major works, there are superb commissioned photographs of Jeddah’s public art taken by artist and photographer Ahmed Mater and also a fascinating insight into the original project through the reproduction in facsimile of the original archive catalogue of the works. With contributions from, amongst others, Mayor Farsi and Director of Tate Modern Chris Dercon, this remarkable project was undertaken by Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives and the Municipality of Jeddah.
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