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oapen-20.500.12657-523322022-01-12T02:53:08Z Iridescent Kuwait Hindelang, Laura Visual culture oil modernity Kuwait. bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACX History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects::AGP Man-made objects depicted in art (cityscapes, machines, etc) bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AK Industrial / commercial art & design::AKP Product design bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJQ History of other lands Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum’s role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies of modernization, political representation, and oil. The notion of iridescence, the ambiguous yet mesmerizing effect of a rainbowlike color play, serves as analytical-aesthetic concept to discuss petroleum’s ambiguous contribution to modernity: both promise of prosperity and destructive force of socio-cultural and ecological environments. Covering a broad spectrum of historical material from aerial and color photography, visual arts, postage stamps, and master plans to architecture and also contemporary art from the Gulf, it dismantles petro- modernity’s visual legacy. 2022-01-11T08:52:30Z 2022-01-11T08:52:30Z 2021 book ONIX_20220111_9783110714739_93 9783110714739 9783110714661 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52332 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9783110714739.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110714739/html De Gruyter De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110714739 10.1515/9783110714739 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783110714739 9783110714661 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) De Gruyter 261 Berlin/Boston [grantnumber unknown] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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Petro-modernity is a local phenomenon essential to the history of Kuwait, while also a global experience and one of the prime sources of climate change. The book investigates petroleum’s role in the visual culture of Kuwait to understand the intersecting ideologies of modernization, political representation, and oil. The notion of iridescence, the ambiguous yet mesmerizing effect of a rainbowlike color play, serves as analytical-aesthetic concept to discuss petroleum’s ambiguous contribution to modernity: both promise of prosperity and destructive force of socio-cultural and ecological environments. Covering a broad spectrum of historical material from aerial and color photography, visual arts, postage stamps, and master plans to architecture and also contemporary art from the Gulf, it dismantles petro- modernity’s visual legacy.
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