Patterns, Costumes & Stencils – Chant Avedissian art research special edition With the exception of a

With the exception of a few extant Babylonian and Roman texts

to the grating difficulties of the 2015 garbage crisis and the struggle to accommodate and assimilate refugees

Costumes & Stencils is a reflection of the diverse peoples

historian Nasser Rabbat

Patterns, Costumes & Stencils – Chant Avedissian art research special edition With the exception of aPatterns, Costumes & Stencils is a reflection of the diverse peoples, cultures, and traditions that have influenced Chant Avedissian's work, from the colorful textiles of Rajasthan and the glazed bricks of Samarkand to Egyptian magazine covers from the 1960s. Avedissian is an artist who continues to provoke through his iconoclastic images that probe ideas of consumerism, art and propaganda, creativity and copyright, and tradition and modernity.