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Manazir Journal
No full textManazir Journal is a peer-reviewed academic Platinum Open Access journal dedicated to visual arts, architecture and cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Every issue focuses on a specific theme defined and proposed by a guest editor responsible for the issue and its follow-up. Manazir Journal accepts proposals for issues published in English, French, German and Italian and is also open to languages of the MENA region, such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish.
The journal is linked to Manazir – Swiss Platform for the Study of Visual Arts, Architecture and Heritage in the MENA, a platform of exchange that aims to connect researchers interested in these themes in Switzerland. The term “Manazir” refers to landscape, perspective and point of view in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian. Thus, Manazir Journal is oriented toward a diversity of transcultural and transdisciplinary “landscapes” and “points of views” and open to a multiplicity of themes, epochs and geographical areas
L’art du diorama (1700-2000)
No full textTwenty years ago, Publics & Musées dedicated an issue to dioramas. This device, which has since been updated in various forms, particularly in contemporary art, is the subject of a new contribution. This reappraisal problematizes characteristic aspects of the dioramas, such as their narrative power, their hyperrealistic lure, as well as their specific relationship to reality and knowledge. The aim is to refocus the diorama on a study of museum institutions, from production to reception, with an emphasis on their materiality and some of their extreme forms
Nostalgia and Belonging in Art and Architecture from the MENA Region: Essay Collection
Full text linkIntroduction to a collection of twelve short essays that investigate how nostalgia and belonging come into play in the study of modern and contemporary art and architecture from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Each essay focuses on one selected object—a work of art or architecture—and reflects on its relation to the overall theme
“Imagined Bodies in Egyptian Modern Art”
No full textThis paper proposes to address the various ways by which the Egyptian modern artists investigated the nude as a genre in its aesthetic form and meaning at the beginning of the 20th century. The nude genre was indeed instrumental to engage with modernism and nudes conveyed the ideals of the nahda renaissance project. Feminine nudes as gendered allegories of the nation would also prove effective in the construct of national imagery. This paper will thus address the translation the nude as a genre as well as a historical narrative into bodies that acted as metaphors of nationalist claims. Besides, it will underline the value of the nude as a desired object that could be copied or acquired in order to reflect the social belonging to a universal culture. Finally, it attempts to address the question of the reception of nudes by its viewers, including the individuals that were the main subject of the artworks; Egyptian women
The Aesthetics of Exile
No full textRoundtable with Aissa Deebi, Beral Madra, Aymon Kreil and Alain Bitta
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