Seeing the point for the line: Shakir Hassan Al Saʾid’s contemplative concept of the artwork
Saleem Al-Bahloly
Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.1386/jciaw_00044_1 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that Al Saʿid's synthesis of existential phenomenology, mystical theology, and abstraction produced a grammar of experience intended to restore human relationship to a universe made meaningless by scientific developments. |
Abstract
This article details how existential phenomenology, mystical theology and abstraction came together in the practice of Shakir Hassan Al Saʿid in the 1960s in order to produce a grammar of experience that might establish some human relationship to a universe rendered meaningless by scientific developments.