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Title: Modernity Denied: the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art, public monuments and migration of artists


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Modernity Denied the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art,
public monuments and migration of artists
  • Mores and Wars Cultural Patrimony in Iraq
  • IACIS
  • Nada Shabout University of North Texas

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Republican Palace, Baghdad 2003
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The Iraqi Museum of Modern Art, 1980s
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http//www.iraqfineart.com/worksreturning.php
Encyclopedia of Iraqi art
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The back of the looted work of Faiq Hassan where
the looters tried to haphazardly cover the stamp
and inventory number assigned by the former
Markaz Saddam.
Faiq Hassan, c. 1940s. A stolen work from the
Iraqi Museum of Modern Art that was mistakenly
purchased by the previous Qatar Ambassador to
Jordan and given to Orfali Gallery to retain and
eventually return to Iraq. Photographed by
author with permission of the Orfali Gallery,
June 2006.
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Baghdad University, Faculty of Fine
Arts--previously the Iraqi Academy of Fine Arts,
June 2003
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El-Fardous Square, Baghdad, Iraq
Al-Najeen Statue, May 2003
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Maarouf al-Risafi
King Faisal Monument
Mohammed Ghani, Kahramana and the Forty Thieves.
From the One Thousand and One Knights.
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Ismail Fattah al-Turk, The Martyrs (Shaheed)
Monument,1983
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June, 2003
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Rifat Chaderji, Al-Jundi al-Majhool (The Unknown
Soldier) 1956-61
Hisham Munir Monument to the Unknown Soldier,
1982
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Bronze statue of Abu Jaafar al Mansour, who built
Baghdad and died in 775, by Iraqi sculptor Khaled
al Rahal.
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Khalid al-Rahal, Al-Maseera Moument, The March
of the Baath Party
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An Iraqi soldier in Baghdad checks a destroyed
statue representing the ousted Baath Party.
Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters
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Baghdad's last remaining statues of Saddam
Hussein loom over two passing U.S. soldiers.
David Furst / AFP / Getty Images
In 2003, the U.S. occupation authority in Iraq
spent 35,000 to remove four 30-foot-high busts
of Hussein from his former Republican Palace in
the Green Zone, where U.S. officials had set up
camp. The Washington Post
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Sahatt al-Tayaran, February 2006. Photo courtesy
of Caecilia Pieri
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Jawad Salim, Nasb al-Hurriyah 1959
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The Monument The Arch of Victory, Baghdad,
1989-2003
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