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Dil Be Del is part of the artist collective Slavs and Tatars’s cycle of work exploring the “mirror for princes” literary genre—a type of political writing during the medieval and renaissance eras that offered behavioral advice to monarchs. The title of the sculpture conjoins the Turkish word for “tongue” and the Persian word for “heart,” imitating the sculptural conjunction of the two organs. Dil Be Del brings to mind the phrase “to speak from the heart,” which advises one to speak with sincerity. But the tangle of body and language also recalls the complicated cultural hybridization experienced by groups in Eurasia—a territory defined by the group as the “area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China”—that were newly incorporated into empires at the beginning of the 20th century.
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- Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 242.
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Did not get object file- streamlined process, no provenance. CLC, 11/19/18.
Did not get object file- streamlined process, no provenance. CLC, 11/19/18.
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Gallery talk by Gabriel Ritter; Concentrations 57: Slavs and Tatars
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- Dallas Museum of Art~Learn more about the artist collective and their work on view at the DMA in 2014 for the exhibition Concentrations 57: Slavs and Tatars.
- Bidoun~Explore an in-depth survey of the collective which discusses its origins, its founders' childhoods, and their work as Slavs and Tatars.
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General Description
Dil Be Del is part of the artist collective Slavs and Tatars’s cycle of work exploring the “mirror for princes” literary genre—a type of political writing during the medieval and renaissance eras that offered behavioral advice to monarchs. The title of the sculpture conjoins the Turkish word for “tongue” and the Persian word for “heart,” imitating the sculptural conjunction of the two organs. Dil Be Del brings to mind the phrase “to speak from the heart,” which advises one to speak with sincerity. But the tangle of body and language also recalls the complicated cultural hybridization experienced by groups in Eurasia—a territory defined by the group as the “area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China”—that were newly incorporated into empires at the beginning of the 20th century.
Excerpt from
- Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 242.
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Web Resources
- Dallas Museum of Art~Learn more about the artist collective and their work on view at the DMA in 2014 for the exhibition Concentrations 57: Slavs and Tatars.
- Bidoun~Explore an in-depth survey of the collective which discusses its origins, its founders' childhoods, and their work as Slavs and Tatars.
Notes
Did not get object file- streamlined process, no provenance. CLC, 11/19/18.
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Cultures
Geography
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Historical periods
Individuals
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Gallery talk by Gabriel Ritter; Concentrations 57: Slavs and Tatars
89409682: UMO
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