Ahmet Doğu İpek: A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads

Ahmet Doğu İpek: A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads
Author: Selen Ansen
Publisher: Arter Publications
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2022-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 6057100883

Published in the context of Ahmet Doğu İpek’s solo exhibition which brings together works that the artist has created with various mediums between 2020–2022, the book titled A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads features a text written by the exhibition’s curator Selen Ansen, as well as commissioned essays by Cana Bostan, Gökçen Erkılıç and Nevzat Sayın which explore İpek’s works stemming from natural phenomena through the lens of reflections proposed by the exhibition. Designed by Ali Emre Doğramacı, the publication also includes reproduction images and exhibition photographs by Hadiye Cangökçe, flufoto (Barış Aras & Elif Çakırlar) and Sena Nur Taştekne. Taking place in Arter’s -1 floor between 19 May 2022 and 29 January 2023, the exhibition A Halo of Blackness Upon Our Heads presents a world only just born, yet already brimming with countless experiences, a multitude of narrations, innumerable revolutions both past and still to come, microscopic and grandiose transformations, quantities of small and grand destructions. Although figurative for the most part, İpek’s works reflect the climate of our epoch by means of abstraction, emphasising in a covert manner the small and broad-scale events that impact our lives. In a broader sense, these works allow us to reach that which our hands or our eyes cannot grasp: skys, darknesses, subterranean forces, tectonic movements, buried memories, the infinitesimal, the immensely big, the far-off, the too near.

The Dönme

The Dönme
Author: Marc Baer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 0804768676

This is the first study of the modern history, experience, and ethno-religious identity of the Dönme, the descendants of seventeenth-century Jewish converts to Islam, in Ottoman and Greek Salonica and in Turkish Istanbul.

Kemalism as a Fixed Variable in the Republic of Turkey

Kemalism as a Fixed Variable in the Republic of Turkey
Author: Lutz Berger
Publisher: Ergon
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2020-01-17
Genre: Kemalism
ISBN: 9783956506321

Since its foundation, Kemalism has played a significant role in the political and social life of the Republic of Turkey. At the same time, Kemalism is one of the most controversial terms in Turkish political life. It is connected to historical personalities like its eponym Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as well as other personalities like Ismet Inönü, Recep Peker and more. This volume illustrates different aspects of Kemalism and highlights the positive and negative incidents and reforms associated with it.

Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860-1950

Ottoman/Turkish Visions of the Nation, 1860-1950
Author: D. Gürpinar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2013-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137334215

Seeing the critical phase in the construction of a Turkish historical imagination between 1860 to 1950 disregarding the political disruptions, this book demonstrates how history and historical imagery had been instrumental in the nation-building process.

The Migration Conference 2018 Book of Abstracts and Programme

The Migration Conference 2018 Book of Abstracts and Programme
Author: FETHIYE. TOPALOGLU TILBE (YUSUF.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: Emigration and immigration
ISBN: 9781910781814

This volume presents the book of abstracts and programme for the Migration Conference 2018 hosted by ISEG and IGOT at Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal from 26 to 28 June 2018. It covers about 140 sessions and over 600 contributors from about 60 countries joining from around the world.

Words Are Very Unnecessary

Words Are Very Unnecessary
Author: Selen Ansen
Publisher: Arter Yayınları
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 6056948935

Arter initiates a new publication series, Arter Background, to accompany exhibitions drawn from its collection, which holds more than 1,300 works of art as of 2019. This second book in the series accompanies the exhibition Words Are Very Unnecessary, a collection-based group exhibition that takes its title from the lyrics in the 1990 Depeche Mode song Enjoy the Silence. Curated by Selen Ansen, the exhibition revolves around the concepts of gesture, remains and trace. In the book, excerpts of texts selected around the ideas active in the curatorial process are complemented by new essays written specifically for this context. It thus features texts on themes associated with vain gestures, hands, quotidian movements, daily objects, remains, non-gestures, remnants, dust, gestures of destruction, gestures of apology and the act of writing, and commissioned essays by Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, Cemal Ener, and Nora Tataryan. With contributions by Vito Acconci • Giorgio Agamben • Roland Barthes • Georges Bataille • Samuel Beckett • İlhan Berk • Thomas Bernhard • Robert Bresson • John Cage • Sophie Calle • Sevinç Çalhanoğlu • François Dagognet • Fernand Deligny • Emily Dickinson • Brian Dillon • Cemal Ener • Esther Ferrer • Vilém Flusser • Ferreira Gullar • Eva Hesse • Susan Howe • Tim Ingold • Donald Judd • Allan Kaprow • Ali Kazma • Milan Knížák • Alison Knowles • Bruno Latour • Ercümend Behzad Lav • André Leroi-Gourhan • Bruno Munari • Georges Perec • Francis Ponge • Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz • Paul Regnard • Pierre Sansot • İskender Savaşır • W.G. Sebald • Anita Sezgener • Daniel Spoerri • Nora Tataryan • Robert Walser • Aby Warburg

Sarkis: Çaylak Sokak

Sarkis: Çaylak Sokak
Author: Emre Baykal
Publisher: Arter Publications
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 6056948919

Arter Publications’ extended programme includes the launch of two new series which accompany the opening of the institution’s new building in Dolapdere: the first is entitled Arter Close-Up and offers a closer look into a selected work from its collection; which contains more than 1,300 works as of 2019. The Close-Up series starts its journey with Sarkis’s iconic work Çaylak Sokak - an artwork that is deemed to be one of the turning points in the history of contemporary art in Turkey. The artwork, which was first exhibited at the Maçka Art Gallery in 1986, and then took part in the Wizards of the Earth exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1989, bears the same name as the street in the Talimhane district of Istanbul where Sarkis was born and raised. It is displayed once more as part of the exhibition What Time Is It? opened at the Arter’s new building in Dolapdere. Authored by Emre Baykal, the chief curator of Arter, Çaylak Sokak offers not only a multilayered reading of Sarkis’ work in different contexts intertwined with political and cultural history but also provides a personal journey constructed around the work itself. The book, designed by Esen Karol, takes a journey into the artist’s personal history accompanied by photographs taken by Hadiye Cangökçe.

The Secret Jews

The Secret Jews
Author: Joachim Prinz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1973
Genre: History
ISBN:

After discussing antisemitism in the Iberian peninsula in the medieval period, focusing on the Spanish Inquisition and expulsion, presents information about Converso communities and individuals in the Old and New Worlds. Praises the efforts of Joseph Nasi to protect or avenge persecuted Jews. Deals with complex problems of identity, including those of Uriel Acosta and Spinoza, who did not fit into new Jewish communities. As a rabbi who had been among the first to speak out against the Nazis when living in Berlin and had advocated an immediate mass emigration of Jews, Prinz laments the repeated failure of Jews in history to see the writing on the wall.

Graphic Digits

Graphic Digits
Author: Viction:workshop
Publisher: Victionary
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9789881222886

Our days are numbered so are our currencies, streets and the pages of our books. Numbers are used to mark the passage of time, denote value and record location. There is very little they are not involved in, but perhaps it is time for a makeover-- a re-envisioning not of what they express, but how they are expressed. Bold, simple and always iconic, they provide the perfect forms for experimentation. A designers dream canvas, the possible variations of color, form and pattern are endless. From the minimally embellished to the highly stylized, Graphic Digits showcases original designs that breathe life into numbers. Includes calendar, packaging and promotion design, fashion, signage and brand identities.

Muhammed, the Prophet

Muhammed, the Prophet
Author: Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
Publisher: Alif Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Muslims
ISBN: 9782909347042

Possibly the best book ever written about the Prophet Muhammed, this is the ideal book for any westerner (or Muslim for that matter) who wants the answer to some very simple questions about Islam.