Object Record
Images
Metadata
Accession Number |
2005.24.00 |
Catalog Number |
2005.24.01 |
Object Name |
Banner |
Collection |
Mariam Said |
Date |
1996 |
Description |
Beyond the Realm of Freedom, 1996 Vinyl Banner with Computer-Generated Drawing text (16x 5 feet). -Banner is blue with red, white and black A nude figure in the center of the banner with a snake around it. The banner reads: Edward Said: "...Well beyond the limits of politics." "..in the name of threat." "...impatient with dissent the author of Orientalism commenting on the banning of his books by Arafat and his regime in the occupied territories. September 1996 signed by Jamelie Hassan 1996 From the artist, June 16th 2009: "Beyond the Realm of Freedom was created for an a international banner art exhibition and was presented in galleries in the United States and Mexico in 1996. The banner is two-sided and presents text in both English and Spanish. An excerpt from Edward Said during a radio interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is quoted where he discusses the circumstances of his books being banned in Palestine by Yasser Arafat. The drawing of the black and white figure is from a series of works that Hassan has done which re-present the detail of the snake charmer from Jean-Léon Gérôme’s painting which was on the cover of the first English language edition of Edward Said’s Orientalism. (1979). In 2004, the banner Beyond the Realm of Freedom was exhibited in a project organized by ArteEast, New York and was donated through a gift of Mariam Said and family, ArteEast and Jamelie Hassan to the collection of the National Museum of Arab American Art, Dearborn, Michigan, USA" |
Artist |
Jamelie Hassan |
Title |
Beyond the Realm of Freedom |
People |
Hassan, Jamelie |
Search Terms |
Activist art Arab American art Canadians Orientalism |
Subjects |
Art |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |