Nada Shabout

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Nada M. Shabout (born January 8, 1962 in Glasgow , Scotland) is an American art historian with Palestinian-Iraqi roots who specializes in Iraqi art. Since 2002 she has been Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas . She is President and Co-Founder of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA)

biography

Youth and education

Nada Shabout was the eldest of free children to a Palestinian mother and an Iraqi father. The family returned to Iraq when Shabout was six years old. She graduated from Baghdad High School for Girls .

Shabout took 1980-82 at the Architecture program of the New York Institute of Technology in part, acquired in 1984 a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Minor in Urban Planning at the University of Texas at Arlington , 1988 a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Arts precisely there, in 1991 a Master of Arts in the Humanities there and in 1999 a Ph.D. in humanities with a specialization in art history and art criticism there. She wrote her dissertation on "Modern Arabic Art and the Metamorphosis of Arabic Letters". The book "Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics" is based on her dissertation.

Working life

Shabout was Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas from 2002 , where she taught Arabic Visual Culture and Islamic Art. She worked on the documentation of modern Iraqi cultural heritage, particularly the collection of the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art , after visiting Baghdad in June 2003. After 2003 she organized panels and presentations around the world on the state of modern Iraqi cultural heritage, the relationship of identity and visual representations in modern and contemporary Iraqi art, and exhibitions of art from the Middle East in the West since 911.

Shabout is co-founder and president of the Association of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA). AMCA was founded in 2007 as a private, international, not-for-profit organization and an affiliate of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA). The ACMA mission statement states that its goal is to expand the study of contemporary art from the Middle East by creating a network of interested scholars and organizations that facilitate communication and cooperation through the support of conferences, meetings and the exchange of Provides information via newsletters and a website.

She is curator of the traveling exhibition "Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art" 2005–2007; and "Moments from 20th Century Iraqi Art" at Montalvo Art Center , California, 2007–2008. Shabout is editor of the exhibition catalog “Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art” (UNT Art Gallery, 2007).

Works

Books

  • Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics University of Florida Press, 2007.
  • New Vision: Arab Art in the Twenty-First Century Transglobe Publishing Ltd. and Thames & Hudson, 2009.

Catalogs

  • Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art Denton, TX: UNT Art Gallery, 2007.
  • Modernism and Iraq New York: Columbia University, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 2009.

Article on United States Legal and Ethical Responsibilities in Iraq after 2003

  • The Iraqi Museum of Modern Art: Ethical Implications , Collections, Vol. 2, No. 4, May, AltaMira Press, 2006
  • Historiographic Invisibilities: The Case of Contemporary Iraqi Art , The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 3, No. 9, 2006
  • The "Free" Art of Occupation: Images for a "New" Iraq , Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, Nos. 3 and 4, Summer and Fall 2006
  • Preservation of Iraqi Modern Heritage in the Aftermath of the US Invasion of 2003 in Gail Levin and Elaine A. King, eds., An anthology on Ethics in the Art World, Allworth Press, 2006

Awards

Her honors include 2006 and 2007 scholarships from The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII); a scholarship for the Senior Scholar Program of the Fulbright Program , and in 2007 a lecturer / research grant for the Jordanian project "Arab Art Now: A Study of the Contemporary Art Vision in Jordan"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gerhard Haupt, Pat Binder: AMCA - Interview with Nada Shabout . Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Germany, Elke aus dem Moore , in cooperation with Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art. September 2008. Retrieved September 2014.
  2. ↑ a b AMCA - Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey . Amcainternational.org. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Michael J. Mooney: UNT professor's mission: Save Iraq's modern heritage . In: Dallas Morning News , September 22, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2015. 
  4. ↑ AKPIA at MIT, Spring 2008 Lecturer Biographies . Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2008. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  5. ^ The Fulbright Program - US Department of State - Fulbright 2007-2008 Grantees. In: fulbright.state.gov. Archived from the original on October 16, 2008 ; accessed on January 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Shabout, Nada
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shabout, Nada M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Scotland