Modern Art in the Arab World is a collection of approximately 125 primary documents dealing with the debates around modernism in the Arab world dating between 1882 to 1987. This essay responds to the book from two perspectives: first, as an academic researching modernism in Morocco, and second, as a Qatar-based professor that teaches undergraduate courses about modern and contemporary Arab art. The book highlights a broadly defined and heterogeneous Arab world that extends from Morocco to the Gulf, and the selected texts create new conversations between these varied movements. It is evidence of the changing nature of this field of study. As a tool for teaching, the book offers signposts about what the editors consider to be the most significant debates and events in a given place while also creating the possibility for reading these movements transnationally.

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从摩洛哥和卡塔尔阅读阿拉伯世界的现代艺术

阿拉伯世界的现代艺术是大约 125 份原始文件的集合，涉及 1882 年至 1987 年间围绕阿拉伯世界现代主义的辩论。本文从两个角度回应这本书：首先，作为研究摩洛哥现代主义的学者，其次，作为卡塔尔教授关于现代和当代阿拉伯艺术的本科课程。这本书突出了一个从摩洛哥延伸到海湾的广泛定义和异质的阿拉伯世界，选定的文本在这些不同的运动之间创造了新的对话。这证明了这一研究领域的性质正在发生变化。作为一种教学工具，这本书提供了关于编辑认为是特定地点最重要的辩论和事件的路标，同时也创造了跨国阅读这些运动的可能性。