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Walid Raad

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


   

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Walid Raad: Cotton under My Feet

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited with text by Eva Ebersberger, Daniela Zyman. Text by Guillermo Solana, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Jalal Toufic.

A semi-fictional performative account of the lives and archives of a legendary Spanish art collection

Flexi, 8 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 150 color / 100 bw. | 6/7/2022 | In stock
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Walid Raad

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Edited with text by Eva Respini. Text by Finbarr Barry Flood, Walid Raad.

Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color. | 10/27/2015 | In stock
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Walid Raad

WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
Text by Alan Gilbert, Blake Stimson, Hélčne Chouteau-Matikian.

Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color / 20 duotone. | 2/28/2011 | Not available
$37.95


Walid Raad: The Atlas Group

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Paperback, 9 x 11.25 in. / 126 pgs / 51 color. | 3/1/2008 | Not available
$64.00


Walid Raad: Culturegest

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Text by Miguel Wandschneider.

Paperback, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 162 pgs / 77 color. | 3/1/2008 | Not available
$49.95


Walid Raad: The Atlas Group 1989-2004

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Text by Kassandra Nakas, Britta Schmitz.

Paperback, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color. | 3/1/2007 | Not available
$43.00


Walid Raad: The Atlas Group

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Artwork by Walid Raad.

Paperback, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 224 pgs / 214 color and 214 bw. | 8/15/2006 | Not available
$45.00


Walid Raad: The Atlas Group

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Artwork by Walid Raad.

Paperback, 9 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 3/15/2005 | Not available
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Walid Raad: Cotton under My FeetWalid Raad: Cotton under My Feet

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited with text by Eva Ebersberger, Daniela Zyman. Text by Guillermo Solana, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, Jalal Toufic.

How does a private art collection become public? Who was Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza? These questions are at the heart of Cotton under My Feet, a new project by New York–based Lebanese artist Walid Raad (born 1967) conceived for the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, coinciding with the centennial of its original founder.
From the depths of the museum’s archives, Raad unearthed fragments of stories, fictional documents and puzzling artifacts. Brought to life through a slippery narrative—a lavishly illustrated performance script forms the centerpiece of the volume—Raad invites readers to follow him into the tunnels of conjecture he has constructed, offering a vertiginous reflection on the potential legacy of the Thyssen-Bornemisza collections and their relation to the histories of Western and non-Western art.



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Walid RaadWalid Raad

Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Edited with text by Eva Respini. Text by Finbarr Barry Flood, Walid Raad.

Lebanese artist Walid Raad is an influential voice in art from the Middle East. Published for his first comprehensive exhibition in the US, this catalogue surveys three decades of Raad's practice in photography, video and performance.
Beginning with his groundbreaking project The Atlas Group (1989-2004), to his recent work on the history of art in the Arab world (2007-ongoing), it offers an overview of Raad's career and features his most momentous bodies of work. Raad explores the ways we represent war and history, casting doubt on the veracity of photographic and video documentation.
Essays by scholars place Raad's art in the context of contemporary photography and video, as well as art made in Lebanon since the 1960s; provide an overview of Raad's performance lectures; and examine Raad's most recent bodies of work made in the Islamic galleries at the Louvre and Metropolitan Museum of Art, which explore the history, collecting and display of historical and modern art and artifacts from the Arab world and Iran. A special contribution by Raad presents a fictional interview with multiple artists, curators and writers.
Walid Raad was born in 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon, and moved to Beirut as a child. In 1983, at age 16, Raad left Lebanon for the US. He enrolled at the Rochester Institute of Technology to study photography, and earned his PhD in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. Raad currently lives in New York and Beirut, and has been an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union since 2002.

Eva Respini is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and former Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Stuart Comer is the Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA.

Barry Flood is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 35   

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Walid RaadWalid Raad

Published by Whitechapel Gallery.
Text by Alan Gilbert, Blake Stimson, Hélčne Chouteau-Matikian.

What is a photographic image? Can a photograph ever tell the truth? These are some of the questions artist Walid Raad (born 1967) has been investigating for the past 20 years, in a practice that encompasses photography, film and video, sculpture, installation and performance. This publication brings together three major bodies of work: the photographic and video works produced under the fictional collective name The Atlas Group; various series of seemingly "straight" photography of his native Beirut titled Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut); and his most recent project, Scratching on Things I Could Disavow: A History of Art in the Arab World. The publication includes an exchange between the artist and curator Achim Borchardt-Hume; an essay on conceptions of truth by poet and writer Alan Gilbert; a text on Raad's use of photography and its ties to Beirut by Blake Stimson; and an essay by Hélčne Chouteau-Matikian.

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Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 81   

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Walid Raad: The Atlas GroupWalid Raad: The Atlas Group

Volume 3

Published by Walther König, Köln.

Volume three of Raad’s series of artist's books includes recent work that focuses on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and on the ammunition trade during Lebanon’s civil war. Raad produces performances, videos and photographs; in 1999, he founded The Atlas Group, a fictitious archive that documents the contemporary history of Lebanon.

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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 9 x 11.25 in. / 126 pgs / 51 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 154   

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Walid Raad: CulturegestWalid Raad: Culturegest

Vol. 5: Scratching on Things I Could Disavow

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Text by Miguel Wandschneider.

This publication brings together 17 visual essays by Walid Raad, covering the genesis and development of The Atlas Group--a 12-year research project documenting Lebanon’s recent history, with particular emphasis on war, from 1975 to 1990.

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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 162 pgs / 77 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 154   

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Walid Raad: The Atlas Group 1989-2004Walid Raad: The Atlas Group 1989-2004

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Text by Kassandra Nakas, Britta Schmitz.

Walid Raad founded the Atlas Group in 1989 to (ostensibly) document the contemporary history of Lebanon, particularly its civil war of 1975-1990. This archive brings together found and produced photographic, audio-visual and written records, including snapshots from the private albums of the (fictional) Lebanese historian Dr. Fadl Fakhouri and the videotapes of Souheil Bachar, who was (allegedly) a hostage in Beirut in 1985. Raad's works are characterized by an aura of the documentary, all the better to fracture their credibility; to question the authenticity of the written, pictorial and audiovisual document; and to ask how history--in particular history marked by the trauma and the contradictory narratives of civil war--can be represented. Raad was born in 1967 in Chbanieh, and lives in New York and Beirut. The Atlas Group includes 11 photographic and video works from the last 10 years and two new photo series.

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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 103   

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Walid Raad: The Atlas GroupWalid Raad: The Atlas Group

Volume 2: My Neck Is Thinner Than a Hair

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Artwork by Walid Raad.

The Atlas Group's ongoing investigation of the uses of 3,641 car bombs in the Lebanese Wars from 1975 to 1991. Features 104 photographs of the evidence, taken by journalists, and reproduced front and back. The photographs were discovered by Raad in the archives of the An-Nahar Research Center and the Arab Documentation Center.

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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 224 pgs / 214 color and 214 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2006 p. 146   

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Walid Raad: The Atlas GroupWalid Raad: The Atlas Group

Volume 1: The Fakhouri File

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Artwork by Walid Raad.

Founded in 1999 by artist Walid Raad, The Atlas Group is a fictional archive consisting of lectures, documentaries and installations about Lebanon's civil war. Through this archive, Raad has created an alternative world, one in which conflict is not portrayed as a succession of facts, but as an abstract composition of memories and media reports. Here, Raad documents the historical figure of Dr. Fadi Fakhouri--leading civil war historian--through notebooks, videos and photographs.

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Walther König, Köln

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Paperback, 9 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 138   

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