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dc.contributor.authorHindelang, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-11T08:52:30Z
dc.date.available2022-01-11T08:52:30Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifierONIX_20220111_9783110714739_93
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52332
dc.description.abstractPetro-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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of arten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999en_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGP Man-made objects depicted in arten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration::AKP Product designen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architectureen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regionsen_US
dc.subject.otherVisual culture
dc.subject.otheroil
dc.subject.othermodernity
dc.subject.otherKuwait.
dc.titleIridescent Kuwait
dc.title.alternativePetro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1515/9783110714739
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3
oapen.relation.isFundedBy07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26
oapen.relation.isbn9783110714739
oapen.relation.isbn9783110714661
oapen.collectionSwiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
oapen.imprintDe Gruyter
oapen.pages261
oapen.place.publicationBerlin/Boston
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