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Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora

By Natasha Marie Llorens (Editor)
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By Natasha Marie Llorens (Editor)
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Twenty-five artists who engage with the legacies of Orientalist figuration, modernist abstraction, monumental public art, conceptual art, and postmodern media theory in a postindependence context.

Artists who belong to Algeria are caught between a national mythology that does not represent them and a historical space blanked out by state-sanctioned amnesia on both sides of the Mediterranean. This book presents the work of twenty-five such artists. They offer diverse representations of everyd...

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