Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery. Columbia University

"Modernism and Iraq" introduces the works of Modernist and contemporary artists who are still little known outside the Near East. The exhibition begins with earlier Modernist works, from the 1940s through the 1970s, while also including those produced more recently. Working within the context of their nation's cultural heritage as well as its tumultuous recent history, these Iraqi artists have produced work that engages the legacy of an ancient visual culture as well as the radical challenges to tradition that are part of the phenomenon of Modernism worldwide.

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