Art Under Fire In Afghanistan
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Art Under Fire In Afghanistan
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Author : Guilda Chahverdi
language : en
Publisher: Companyédition Actes Sud/MuCEM
Release Date : 2019
Art Under Fire In Afghanistan written by Guilda Chahverdi and has been published by Companyédition Actes Sud/MuCEM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Afghanistan categories.
Catalog of an exhibition held at Mucem, November 21, 2019-March 1, 2020.
Art In The Crossfire
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Author : Abdul Shokoor Khusrawy
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2021-04-18
Art In The Crossfire written by Abdul Shokoor Khusrawy and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Abdul Shokoor Khusrawy developed a passion for art at age seven while recovering from a broken femur bone in his right leg, which was in a cast for more than two years in Kabul, Afghanistan. He discovered that he was not going to fully recover and walk normally, and he was diagnosed and declared as a disabled person for the rest of his life. Shokoor at the age of seven was supposed to enroll in first grade, but instead he was in and out of the hospitals for two years. He eventually got a little better and entered school at the age of nine, but not without first going through repeated rejections because of his age. Shokoor was about to graduate from high school when Afghanistan was invaded by the USSR. The atrocities of the brutal invasion of the USSR led to a massive refugee influx and mass murder of Afghan civilians. Soon, Afghanistan turned into a battle zone, marked as the darkest chapter of the Afghan recent history. The United Nations and the NATO got involved in bringing peace to Afghanistan; but after decades of trying they eventually realized that the Afghans oppose any sort of foreign interference, fighting the puppet government of Afghanistan and the NATO forces simultaneously. Millions have lost their lives; cities and villages are in ruins. Fear, anxiety, financial hardships, health crises, and chaos continue to threaten the lives of Afghans. Shokoor, as a young yet vulnerable young man, has developed a passion for painting while witnessing these horrors, and he started to draw and paint these events, many images of which are very disturbing. While the war was going on, most schools around the capital city of Kabul were open on and off and were sometimes hit by bullets and rockets. Yet students continued to go to school, risking their lives by being only a bullet away from being killed. Shokoor was among them. He eventually graduated and was enrolled to Kabul University, where every student was living their lives day by day, not knowing whether or not they would make it to school the next day. Shokoor was interested in marrying someone whom he loved, but he was going through financial hardship and had to finish school. He found a job working after school at a construction site to cover his expenses, buy art supplies, and bring food to the table for his new bride who was a housemaker without any educational background. Once, while Shokoor was digging at the base of a building, one of his coworkers accidentally hit Shokoor in the side with a pick mattock, which punctured his kidney. He was taken to a hospital while he was unconscious. He had to stay home for a while to recover while going through financial hardship. However, the newlywed was happy to be alive. War was intensifying around Kabul, and Shokoor as a new graduate had just gotten a new job at the National Gallery and later on at Kabul Museum, not knowing that he was going to be stuck for a week inside the museum while the militants were fighting each other right outside the museum at Darul-Aman, Kabul. A week later Shokoor managed to get home, and he was happy to see his wife. Soon they packed and left their beloved home and sought refuge in the neighboring country of Pakistan, only to find out that they were going to be further devastated. They later return to Kabul hoping to rebuild their shattered lives, not knowing that they were returning to the ruined city where his wife would die during childbirth. Shokoor saw no other choice but to endure, persevere, and stay alive. He left Afghanistan and came to America for safety and a better life, away from fear and wars. Shokoor is one of the luckiest people to get out of a war zone and come to America, where he had hopes and dreams of establishing a new life and make a difference in people’s lives through his art and story. His art exhibition in the US had received great awards and recognitions. Some of his paintings were displayed at the Museum of the Sun City in Arizona. Next, Shokoor wanted to open an art gallery and an art class; he wanted to teach others about art in order to build bridges and bring people together. After a long journey, Shokoor and his five children finally settled in America. They hope to become productive contributors to their community.
Fire And Ice
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Author : Michael D. Fay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Fire And Ice written by Michael D. Fay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Afghan War, 2001- categories.
Rumba Under Fire
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Author : Irina Dumitrescu
language : en
Publisher: punctum books
Release Date : 2016
Rumba Under Fire written by Irina Dumitrescu and has been published by punctum books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Social Science categories.
A professor of poetry uses a deck of playing cards to measure the time until her lover returns from Afghanistan. Congolese soldiers find their loneliness reflected in the lyrics of rumba songs. Survivors of the siege of Sarajevo discuss which book they would have never burned for fuel. A Romanian political prisoner writes her memoir in her head, a book no one will ever read. These are the arts of survival in times of crisis.Rumba Under Fire proposes we think differently about what it means for the arts and liberal arts to be "in crisis." In prose and poetry, the contributors to Rumba Under Fire explore what it means to do art in hard times. How do people teach, create, study, and rehearse in situations of political crisis? Can art and intellectual work really function as resistance to power? What relationship do scholars, journalists, or even memoirists have to the crises they describe and explain? How do works created in crisis, especially at the extremes of human endurance, fit into our theories of knowledge and creativity?The contributors are literary scholars, anthropologists, and poets, covering a broad geographic range - from Turkey to the United States, from Bosnia to the Congo. Rumba Under Fire includes essays, poetry and interviews by Tim Albrecht, Carla Baricz, Greg Brownderville, William Coker, Andrew Crabtree, Cara De Silva, Irina Dumitrescu, Denis Ferhatovic, Susannah Hollister, Prashant Keshavmurthy, Sharon Portnoff, Anand Taneja, and Judith Verweijen.
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language : en
Publisher: TheBookEdition
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Rumba Under Fire The Arts Of Survival From West Point To Delhi
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Author : Irina Dumitrescu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Rumba Under Fire The Arts Of Survival From West Point To Delhi written by Irina Dumitrescu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
A professor of poetry uses a deck of playing cards to measure the time until her lover returns from Afghanistan. Congolese soldiers find their loneliness reflected in the lyrics of rumba songs. Survivors of the siege of Sarajevo discuss which book they would have never burned for fuel. A Romanian political prisoner writes her memoir in her head, a book no one will ever read. These are the arts of survival in times of crisis. Rumba Under Fire proposes we think differently about what it means for the arts and liberal arts to be “in crisis.” In prose and poetry, the contributors to Rumba Under Fire explore what it means to do art in hard times. How do people teach, create, study, and rehearse in situations of political crisis? Can art and intellectual work really function as resistance to power? What relationship do scholars, journalists, or even memoirists have to the crises they describe and explain? How do works created in crisis, especially at the extremes of human endurance, fit into our theories of knowledge and creativity?
War Artists In Afghanistan
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Author : Jules George
language : en
Publisher: Acc Art Books
Release Date : 2016
War Artists In Afghanistan written by Jules George and has been published by Acc Art Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Art categories.
* Each artist's work is accompanied by their own, first-hand account of war in Afghanistan* Captures the vast scale and stunning, fertile beauty of the Afghan landscape'I felt physically sick from the pit of my stomach and to be honest was now feeling vulnerable and completely outside my depth of knowledge. The world had seemingly gone mad and I was having visions of the base now being ransacked; I was confused and unsure what to do. My solution was to do the only thing that I could do. I climbed the nearest sangar and started to draw.' - Jules GeorgeJules George, war artist, traveled to Helmand, Afghanistan, in 2010, in the wake of its bloodiest year for British troops. War Artists in Afghanistan: Beyond the Wire reproduces the remarkable sketches, watercolors and oil paintings born of his experiences with the 2nd Yorkshires (Green Howards). His work captures the vast scale and stunning, fertile beauty of the Afghan landscape, and in its midst, the British soldier, out on patrol, boarding a Chinook or caught in a firefight.The book also features the work of four other war artists in Afghanistan: Douglas Farthing, a former Sergeant Major in the British paratroopers; and Michael Fay, soldier-turned-combat artist for the United States Marine Corps; Arabella Dorman, internationally recognized portrait painter and war artist; and Matthew Cook, trained illustrator, former Times war artist and Territorial Army soldier. Each artist's work is accompanied by their own, first-hand account of war in Afghanistan.
Fire And Ice Marine Corps Combat Art From Afghanistan And Iraq Art Work By Warrant Officer Michael Fay Usmcr
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Author : United States. Marine Corps
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007*
Fire And Ice Marine Corps Combat Art From Afghanistan And Iraq Art Work By Warrant Officer Michael Fay Usmcr written by United States. Marine Corps and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007* with categories.
Afghanistan S Heroic Artists
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Author : Rob Waring
language : en
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2010
Afghanistan S Heroic Artists written by Rob Waring and has been published by Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Art categories.
"When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the religious group aimed to destroy any artistic expression that violated their strict interpretation of Islamic rules. A group of Afghan artists risked death by disobeying the Taliban to preserve the artwork of their country. Who are the men that saved Afghanistan's art? How did they do it?" -- provided by publisher.
Under Fire
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Author : Dan Cruickshank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Under Fire written by Dan Cruickshank and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Afghanistan categories.
Ugliness and Beauty, war and wonderment, beauty and risk, heroism and calm 'Lost Treasures' is a timely account of Dan's quest for fragile treasures and wonders of the world caught up in conflict. 'I'd never felt so troubled but alive as I did in Afghanistan', says Dan. 'The awful drama of beauty and history being caught up in the maelstrom of war is something we have to face in a world more riven than ever before - the treasures of the world we've forgotten because they've been caught up in human conflict.' Travelling in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and Palestine, Dan writes a personal account of cultures in extremis and in doing so also uncovers the spirit and history of the people he meets on his journeys. In Iraq under the threat of war, he takes us to relics of great civilisations - Mesopotamia, Assyria, Samaria and Babylon - which are home to such wonders as the Hanging Gardens created by King Nebuchadnezzar and the largest single-span arch of the ancient world on the bank of the river Tigris. In Afghanistan, he searches for the country's great treasures and journeys out into the country in the aftermath of war in 2001. He discovers the heroism of individuals who saved many artworks, but also finds the remains of the destruction of the Taliban, including the two giant Buddhas. Carved into the mountainside of the Hindu Kush Range on the Silk Route in the second century, they survived until March 2001 when the Taliban destroyed them. However, Dan's account is also one of hope. While he celebrates miraculous survivals in the face of war, he also reveals how even when bombs and bullets have done their worst, cultures live on in the hearts and indestructible imaginations of the people.