Keep Your Eye on the Wall - Palestinian Landscapes
تاريخ النشر: 01/09/2013
الناشر: دار الساقي للطباعة والنشر
نبذة الناشر:In art and literature, walls are frequently used as powerful
symbols of division. For the people of Palestine, however,
the wall that cuts deeply into their land and society is all
too real, snaking through over 700 kilometres of the West
Bank. It throttles Palestinians, seals off Israelis, and all but
guarantees perpetual ignorance, fear ...and rage on both
sides.
Keep Your Eye on the Wall brings together seven awardwinning
artist-photographers and four essayists, all
responding to the Wall in images or words, specially
commissioned for this book. The photographers present
unique perspectives, whether documenting the journey of
labourers across the barrier, the desolation of abandoned
checkpoints or the tattered posters of "martyrs" on a wall
in Gaza.
Informed, critical and powerful, the photographs
constitute, in the words of French philosopher of art
Georges Didi-Huberman, ‘a space for struggle’. إقرأ المزيد