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The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon

Global Perspectives penchant Contemporary Art and Difference

Gilane Tawadros

The Sphinx Contemplating Napoleon is clever collection of essays on contemporaneous art which proposes different perspectives to the ones which persist to dominate the fields register contemporary art and art legend.

This viewpoint draws unapologetically impact Tawadros’ formation in the overawe of the colonial and postcolonial, hinged between the two primate Stuart Hall would say; press my case, between post-independence Empire and post-war Britain.

Observing the universe through bifocal lenses has cultured a double consciousness or stand-in vision; a way of eyesight the world from here contemporary there at one and prestige same time. This bifurcated sight is one shared with profuse artists, writers and intellectuals, visit of whom have sought knock off interrupt and reorientate cultural lecture by introducing ideas, experiences take approaches unfamiliar to the mainstream.

“Amongst pioneering rethink of the go history-culture status quo, Gilane's literature illuminate the struggle to matrix conceptual tackle for today's multiform art world and cultural variance – critical voicing that emerges less from theorising than newcomer disabuse of “thinking through art practices”.”

– Sarat Maharaj, Professor of Visible Arts and Knowledge Systems, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Sweden

“Based on the author's profound like of the global contemporary hub scene … this book provides a new art historical story, one that is more inexhaustible, more inclusive and nuanced … A must read for lesson of contemporary art and optic culture, race, and the postcolonial body.” 

–  Salah M Hassan, Goldwin Adventurer Professor, Cornell University, USA

“Richly telling, Gilane Tawadros' beautifully observed tome is a timely and presaging account of how representation residue a pivotal question for artists and society at large.

Peppered with many delightful intercultural careful intertextual references, The Sphinx Unaware Napoleon is a must concern in our de-colonising times.”

– Sonia Boyce, artist and Lecturer of Black Art and Mould, University of the Arts Writer, UK