https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Becoming-Assemblies-in-Contemporary-Syria https://booksandideas.net/Becoming-Assemblies-in-Contemporary-Syria 2021-02-22T08:00:00Z text/html en Anne-Marie McManus Arts Syria exile Books and ideas originals sculpture <p>How can the collective exist in a country torn apart by civil war? In <i>Jamhara/Assemblage</i> Syrian artist Mohamad Omran and writer Odai al-Zoubi use ink drawings and words to envision unity in the midst of fragmentation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Kara-Walker-s-Fons-Americanus-at-Tate-Modern https://booksandideas.net/Kara-Walker-s-Fons-Americanus-at-Tate-Modern 2019-10-10T07:00:00Z text/html en Vanina Géré Arts slavery history African American art history monument visual arts Books and ideas originals sculpture memorial <p>Visual artist Kara Walker's <i>Fons Americanus</i> is this year's commissioned work for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. While addressing the current debates regarding memorials, it goes beyond a mere rewriting or righting of history.</p>