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This work is based upon Sufi mysticism and deals with Judaism, Christianity and Islam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was a gift to the Sackners from Rachid when they vistied his studio with their grandson Albert Behar, who also served as their translator. The volume traces the ancient Koraichi family ancestors from the eighth century in Algiers and evoked the illustrated work for the tapestries for the installation. Explainations are given for the symbolism of each tapistry. The book also depicts photographs of the surroundings of the workshops, the artisians and ancient architectural found elements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book, titled "Letters of Clay," illustrates and describes the large vessels decorated with Koraichi's signature calligraphic designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In her review of the exhibition at the Miami Art Museum, Turner writes, "African artists have proved especially adept at using language in beautiful but provocative ways...Willem Hendrik Adriaan Boshoff of South Africa, who condenses handwritten and typewritten text into minuscule characters, such as his 1979 work written while in prison as a conscientious objector to apartheid. Some of his tiny letters are legible, while others are defiantly obscure. In ways both good and bad, they become a metaphor for the range of art in "Global Conceptualism." The work described, the manuscript for "Kykafrikaans," was lent to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The colophon states that "Original edition of Mahmood Darwich's "Poem of Beirut" was engraved on 22 zinc plates by Rachid Koraichi in Sisi-Bond-Said, Tunisia in 1984. The plates were printed in 250 gram weight Velin d'Arches paper by Elsa Ancia, Paris, France 2001. Kamel Ibrahim drew the calligraphy for the poem in Alexandria, Egypt, 1986. This text was printed at Saig's typographic press, L'Hay-les-Roses, France. The translation of the poem into English is printed on a single page The case was designed and fabricated by the Duval workshop in Paris, France. The total printing run was limited to 75 copies, signed and numbered by Koraichi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents V&A ANNOUNCES RACHID KORAÏCHI AS WINNER OF THE JAMEEL PRIZE 2011Algerian born Rachid Koraïchi has won the £25,000 Jameel Prize for a selection of embroidered cloth banners from a series entitled Les Maitres invisibles (The Invisible Masters), 2008. Martin Roth, Director of the V&A, Hasan Jameel and Ed Vaizey MP, presented Rachid Koraïchi with the prize at a ceremony at the V&A on Monday 12September. 2011.The Judges felt that Rachid's work matches the aims of the Jameel Prize through its qualities of design and reliance on traditional craft. They particularly admired how he has made his great spiritual and intellectual lineage accessible to all through the graphic language he has created out of his artistic heritage.Koraichi uses Arabic calligraphy, and symbols and ciphers from a range of other languages and cultures to explore the lives and legacies of the 14 great mystics of Islam. The work aims to show that the world of Islam, in contrast to contemporary...

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This book is a collaboration between Rumi, a celebrated mystic of the 13th century who founded the order of the whirling derviches and Koraichi, a contemporary calligraphic artist. The seven themes of the poetry Mawlana Djalal Oddin-Rumi are graphically echoed in the drawings of Koraichi. They include tolerance, creation, mirror, poetry, dance, music and love. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The 49 poems by Nancy Huston each are illustrated with mandalas drawn by Koraichi. Huston received the "Femina" book prize in France in 2006 for her novel "Lignes e Fille." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This review of an exhibition at MoMA in New York states that "Rachid Koraichi , raised in a Sufi family in Algeria and now living in Paris, invents 'calligraphic' texts with Arabic characters, Chinese-style ideograms and talismanic signs, and embroiders them in gold on silk banners to creat banners for a new, universal language." Cotter also writes that "Shirin Neshat, born in Iran, turns the written word - as distinct from calligraphy, with its very particular skills - into a quasi-revolutionary instsrument in a seies of 1996 studio photographs of young women wha are dressed in traditional black veils but carry guns and have passages from erotic poetry and paeans to religious martyrdom written in Persian on their faces and hands. The artist seems to be symbolically placing political power in the hands of the kinds of veiled women who are automatically assumed by many Westerners to be oppressed victims of Islamic religious law, but who don't necessarily see themselves that way at...

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This exhibition ostensibly dealt with works by 17 Islamic artists but fell short owing to inclusion of mostly Western art images done by Islamic artists living in the West. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Venetia Porter curated the exhibition and edited this book. The Sackner Archive holds works by all the artist/poets cited as other contributors with the exception of Chada Amer. The brief biographies in the final section is accompanied by a photograph of the individuak -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.