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Art and Art History

From pre-historic cave art to the digital media of today, human beings across the globe and through the ages have used visual forms to understand and shape their world.

Painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as ornament, design, and photography have provided rich traditions of visual expression and communication, and the development of new media has greatly expanded this visual repertoire. Different cultures, in different places and at different times, have valued and conceptualized vision and made use of the visual arts in a variety of ways.

The visual arts investigate and re-imagine the physical, social, cultural, and spiritual spheres of human existence and offer arguments about and interpretations of these realms.

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Research Highlight

Project Description
al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art al Mawrid is a research center and archive dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the visual arts of the Arab world. Through a range of activities that include fellowships, research projects, conferences and colloquia, as well as the construction of a unique open-access archive, al Mawrid aims to be a major resource for scholars, independent researchers, and for educational and art institutions.

The center encompasses the Arab Art Archive, the Akkasah Photography Archive, and Haraka: Experimental Lab for Arab Art and Social Thought.