Kirsten Scheid
Biographic Data
| ID | 139917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsten Scheid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Scheid |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEID K |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Beirut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8346-4454 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ethics as ecology, ecology as ethics: Lessons from Lebanon for an anthropology of life against the nation-state grain
An Art History to Emerge
Adding Art to Qalandiya: Qalandiya International Biennale 2, 2014
Necessary Nudes: Ḥadātha and Muʿāṣira in the Lives of Modern Lebanese
In Beirut between 1920 and 1940, the fine-art nude was a necessary genre. Exhibitions of these pictures put audiences on display as much as nudes. Thus, these events enable probing the role of art at intercultural junctures and understanding the experience of self-modernizing subjects outside metropolitan locales. Al-ḥadātha and al-muʿāṣira are analyzed as complementary but noninterchangeable aspects of the modernizing project, to argue that view…
Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork by Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa Malkki
MissingNikê: On Oversights, Doubled Sights, and Universal Art Understood through Lebanon
The role copies of "Western" art play in constructing hybrid local/universal ideologies of modernity has not been studied. This essay demonstrates the centrality of the copied Nikê to the co-construction of metropolitan France and marginal Mandate-era Lebanon. It suggests an art-historical and ethnographic methodology for tracking imagination and the cultivation of taste that is not bounded by nation, culture, or geography. Tracing the circuits t…
Necessary Nudes: Ḥadātha and Muʿāṣira in the Lives of Modern Lebanese
In Beirut between 1920 and 1940, the fine-art nude was a necessary genre. Exhibitions of these pictures put audiences on display as much as nudes. Thus, these events enable probing the role of art at intercultural junctures and understanding the experience of self-modernizing subjects outside metropolitan locales. Al-ḥadātha and al-muʿāṣira are analyzed as complementary but noninterchangeable aspects of the modernizing project, to argue that view…
MissingNikê: On Oversights, Doubled Sights, and Universal Art Understood through Lebanon
The role copies of "Western" art play in constructing hybrid local/universal ideologies of modernity has not been studied. This essay demonstrates the centrality of the copied Nikê to the co-construction of metropolitan France and marginal Mandate-era Lebanon. It suggests an art-historical and ethnographic methodology for tracking imagination and the cultivation of taste that is not bounded by nation, culture, or geography. Tracing the circuits t…
Ethics as ecology, ecology as ethics: Lessons from Lebanon for an anthropology of life against the nation-state grain
MissingNikê: On Oversights, Doubled Sights, and Universal Art Understood through Lebanon
The role copies of "Western" art play in constructing hybrid local/universal ideologies of modernity has not been studied. This essay demonstrates the centrality of the copied Nikê to the co-construction of metropolitan France and marginal Mandate-era Lebanon. It suggests an art-historical and ethnographic methodology for tracking imagination and the cultivation of taste that is not bounded by nation, culture, or geography. Tracing the circuits t…
Necessary Nudes: Ḥadātha and Muʿāṣira in the Lives of Modern Lebanese
In Beirut between 1920 and 1940, the fine-art nude was a necessary genre. Exhibitions of these pictures put audiences on display as much as nudes. Thus, these events enable probing the role of art at intercultural junctures and understanding the experience of self-modernizing subjects outside metropolitan locales. Al-ḥadātha and al-muʿāṣira are analyzed as complementary but noninterchangeable aspects of the modernizing project, to argue that view…
Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork by Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa Malkki
Adding Art to Qalandiya: Qalandiya International Biennale 2, 2014
An Art History to Emerge
Ethics as ecology, ecology as ethics: Lessons from Lebanon for an anthropology of life against the nation-state grain
Art (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works)