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“There are some times in the history of art when certain figures stimulate a way of thinking that brings in a lot of other people,” Iraqi author and scholar Kanan Makiya says about the “golden age” of Iraqi modern art.
“And suddenly, there are all kinds of new experiences, and new ways of seeing things emerge.”
The golden age of Iraqi art
The 1950s and 1960s were a period of extraordinary creativity and production in Baghdad, when artists, architects and writers navigated a path between modernism and Iraqi tradition.
Jewad Selim produced the
Freedom Monument, a work drawing from both Picasso’s Cubism and Assyrian friezes, in Tahrir Square; Kadhim Hayder began his monumental painting cycle
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prospects in life. this is a guy who had options in life. he chose this. that s going to get to isis recruits as well. brian, thank you very much. despite punishing new air strikes, there is more evidence that isis is tightening its grip. shocking new video of isis thugs gleefully destroying ancient artifacts at an iraqi museum. there are shocking new details of the mass kidnapping of christian villagers in syria. let s go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. she s got more. reporter: billions of dollars of valuable history destroyed and a new horrifying assault on christianity. isis says god ordered these ancient artifacts destroyed in mosul, iraq. one priceless statue after another smashed. some date back to 700 b.c. in northeastern syria, these assyrian christians are fortunate to escape.