Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century

Hindelang, Laura (2022). Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110714739

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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.

Item Type:

Book (Monograph)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History > Architectural History and Preservation
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Art History

UniBE Contributor:

Hindelang, Laura

Subjects:

700 Arts
700 Arts > 710 Landscaping & area planning
700 Arts > 720 Architecture
700 Arts > 750 Painting
700 Arts > 760 Graphic arts
700 Arts > 770 Photography & computer art

ISBN:

9783110714739

Publisher:

De Gruyter

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Language:

English

Submitter:

Laura Katharina Hindelang

Date Deposited:

26 Jan 2022 09:56

Last Modified:

09 Oct 2023 23:05

Publisher DOI:

10.1515/9783110714739

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/164434

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/164434

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