Abandoned Dwellings: A History of Beirut Fiction Nobuyoshi Araki and Collier Schorr

Nobuyoshi Araki and Collier Schorr

ISBN: 9783899553307

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in which writing sheds its communicative function and pursues the inarticulable

This major cover story is completed by an interview by Alessio Ascari

Abandoned Dwellings: A History of Beirut Fiction Nobuyoshi Araki and Collier SchorrOver the past 150 years, Beirut has witnessed a cycle of unbridled growth, war, economic and social crises, and migratory movements. It is in this territory ceaselessly destroyed and rebuilt, broken and regenerated that Gregory Buchakjian has undertaken an artistic project and a research devoted to abandoned dwellings. The project constitutes a survey of 744 buildings, a collection of archives and testimonies, and a photographic series. Black and