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Ahmet Oktay (1933–2016) was a poet, critic and essayist who examined modern art through questions of ideology, memory and cultural change. Adem Genç Post Dada ve Pop Sürecinde Yeni-Soyut Yaklaşımlar is a substantial study of painter Adem Genç, also presented as The New Abstract Approaches During the Post-Dada and Pop Period with a translation by Turgut Arıkan. Oktay places the artist's abstraction in conversation with post-Dada strategies, Pop and the problem of how form acquires historical meaning. The book also shows his wider critical method: individual works are read within institutions, intellectual debates and the pressures of modernity. This bilingual art study is the appropriate available entry because its title, authorship and translation are independently documented. It rewards readers interested in modern art from Turkey as well as those following Oktay's movement between poetry and visual criticism.
