This essay situates the publication of Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents in the context of an expanding global interest in modern Arab art as well as the study of modern Arab art as an academic discipline. The essay first examines the implications of the cultivation of a new museum and gallery infrastructure for modern Arab art in the Arab Gulf. It then considers how the academic study of modern Arab art has faced institutional barriers, due largely to the overwhelming academic focus on Ancient Studies and Islamic art. Finally, it suggests that Modern Arab Art in the Arab World provides scholars with a comprehensive textual archive that calls for a historicized approach to theorizing the emergence of modernist aesthetics in Arab visual cultures.

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定位现代阿拉伯艺术：在全球艺术市场与地区研究之间

这篇文章将出版阿拉伯世界的现代艺术：原始文献在全球对现代阿拉伯艺术的兴趣不断扩大以及将现代阿拉伯艺术作为一门学科进行研究的背景下。本文首先探讨了在阿拉伯海湾建设新的博物馆和画廊基础设施对现代阿拉伯艺术的影响。然后，它考虑了现代阿拉伯艺术的学术研究如何面临制度障碍，这主要是由于学术对古代研究和伊斯兰艺术的压倒性关注。最后，它建议阿拉伯世界的现代阿拉伯艺术为学者们提供了一个全面的文本档案，要求采用历史化的方法来理论化现代主义美学在阿拉伯视觉文化中的出现。