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Product Details
Author:
Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Omar Kholeif, Rasha Salti
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
168
Publisher:
MIT Press (June 24, 2025)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781915609359
ISBN-10:
1915609356
Weight:
5.4oz
Dimensions:
4.38" x 6.25" x 0.52"
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RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_full_active_D20260705T122203_156890364-20260705.xml
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RandomHouse
List Price:
$18.95
Series:
Imagine Otherwise
Case Pack:
48
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$14.59
Publisher Identifier:
P-RH
Discount Code:
A
QuickShip:
Yes
Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
Lithuania
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Sternberg Press
Overview
Hans Ulrich Obrist leads readers into the world of path-breaking Syrian artist Simone Fattal in this intensely personal volume.
For over five decades, Simone Fattal (b. 1942, Damascus) has eschewed singular form or subject in her wide-ranging artistic practice. In this deeply personal biography, Fattal’s close friend and confidante Hans Ulrich Obrist journeys with the artist across physical borders and through seats of imagination. Together they discuss the artist's remarkable early life in Syria, her coming-of-age in Lebanon, as well as her transcultural life in France. Wartime memory and exile in California, sow the seed for discussions regarding archaeology, history, and mythology.
Beginning her artistic life as a painter in 1969, Fattal initially created sensuous abstract works that diverged from the predominantly figurative paintings commonly exhibited in Lebanon at the time. In 1980, after a decade spent in Lebanon, Fattal fled the ongoing civil war, departing from painting, eventually settling in Sausalito, California, where she founded the revolutionary publishing house, Post-Apollo Press.
In 1988, after studying sculpture in San Francisco, Fattal was consumed by another wave of creativity that led her to pursue the creation of ambitious ceramic sculpture—a medium in which she continues to work in to this day from her studio in Paris.
Prose and interviews between Fattal and Obrist are annotated and introduced by Dr. Omar Kholeif, whose essay helps situate Fattal’s multiple creative journeys. An afterword by author, curator, and filmmaker Rasha Salti entitled "Warrior Women Fall From a Low Height" pulses, both in its lyricism and its expressive desire to solder and suture histories, once fractious, back together.
Published in collaboration with artPost21
For over five decades, Simone Fattal (b. 1942, Damascus) has eschewed singular form or subject in her wide-ranging artistic practice. In this deeply personal biography, Fattal’s close friend and confidante Hans Ulrich Obrist journeys with the artist across physical borders and through seats of imagination. Together they discuss the artist's remarkable early life in Syria, her coming-of-age in Lebanon, as well as her transcultural life in France. Wartime memory and exile in California, sow the seed for discussions regarding archaeology, history, and mythology.
Beginning her artistic life as a painter in 1969, Fattal initially created sensuous abstract works that diverged from the predominantly figurative paintings commonly exhibited in Lebanon at the time. In 1980, after a decade spent in Lebanon, Fattal fled the ongoing civil war, departing from painting, eventually settling in Sausalito, California, where she founded the revolutionary publishing house, Post-Apollo Press.
In 1988, after studying sculpture in San Francisco, Fattal was consumed by another wave of creativity that led her to pursue the creation of ambitious ceramic sculpture—a medium in which she continues to work in to this day from her studio in Paris.
Prose and interviews between Fattal and Obrist are annotated and introduced by Dr. Omar Kholeif, whose essay helps situate Fattal’s multiple creative journeys. An afterword by author, curator, and filmmaker Rasha Salti entitled "Warrior Women Fall From a Low Height" pulses, both in its lyricism and its expressive desire to solder and suture histories, once fractious, back together.
Published in collaboration with artPost21
