Description
Several recent discoveries have enabled us to refine our knowledge of the lost city of Alexandria. By examining the city's multi-layered temporalities, this book echoes dominant accounts of Alexandria as a city through which successive civilisations and political formations of the past (Byzantine, Arab, Modern) have rehearsed visions of futures that are either no longer present or remain felt through Alexandria's remaining material culture and built environment. This book also features a series of contemporary artworks which develop a critical and poetic association with the themes it covers.
Exhibition Schedule:
MUCEM, Musee des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Mediterranee, Marseille : 08/02/2022 - 08/05/2023
About the Author
Arnaud Quertinmont is curator of Egyptian and Near Eastern antiquities at the Royal Museum of Mariemont, Belgium
Nicolas Amoroso is curator of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Royal Museum of Mariemont, Belgium
Edwin Nasr is an independent writer and curator
Sarah Rifky is a curatorial advisor and curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and PhD candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Book Information
ISBN 9780300270181
Author Arnaud Quertinmont
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Yale University Press
Publisher Yale University Press