Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence, 1850-1936

ISBN-13: 9781838601096 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 328 str.

Fatenn Mostafa

Opis

Re-establishes Egypt's place in the global Modernist canon - its reformers, feminists, art collectives and cultural salons - with over a hundred colour illustrations

Spis treści

INTRODUCTIONPART ONE REACHING FOR MODERNITY: A MULTICULTURAL RENAISSANCECHAPTER 1: al-Nahda: The Building Blocks of a By-Product1.1. Producing Knowledge1.2. Cosmopolitanism and Mass MediaCHAPTER 2: EGYPT AS EXHIBITION2.1. European Orientalism: The Art of the Other and the Foreign Complex2.2. Orientalizing a New Industry: Villa Medici, Cercle Artistique and Exposition du CaireCHAPTER 3: ART AND ISLAMPART TWO FUNUN JAMILA: PATRONS, A STATE AND A NEW SOCIAL PLAYERCHAPTER 4: The Patrons4.1. The Egyptian School of Fine Arts in Cairo4.2. Société des amis de l'art, Salon du Caire and Atelier of Alexandria4.3. La Chimère and the Art Advocacy Group4.4. Cultural Salons and the Woman QuestionCHAPTER 5: The State5.1. Building an Infrastructure5.2. The Museum of Modern Art5.3. Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil and his eponymous museum5.4. ConclusionCHAPTER 6: The Artist-The Emergence of a new social player6.1. Egypt for Egyptians6.2. Innovators vs. ConformistsPART THREE AL-RUWWAD: THE FIRST-GENERATION INNOVATORS7. Georges Sabbagh (1887-1951): The (E)migrant Son8. Mohamed Naghi (1888-1956): Naghi d'Alexandrie9. Mahmoud Mokhtar (1891-1934): The Hyphen between Ancient and Modern10. Ragheb Ayad (1892-1982): The Godfather of the Egyptian Gaze11. Mahmoud Saïd (1897-1964): In Search of a Happy Island12. Marguerite Nakhla (1908-1977): Life as it should beCONCLUSION Decoding 1930s Egypt: The Seeds of the NaksaTIMELINEENDNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

O autorze

Fatenn Mostafa is founder of ArtTalks Egypt, a leading interdisciplinary, Cairo-based art space dedicated to the management of selected Egyptian artists' estates - in addition to providing exhibition, publication, education and archiving services. Founded in 2009, the gallery has rigidly selected a roster of emerging artists to work exclusively with and has established itself as an authority on high quality secondary market works by twentieth century masters.