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Modernism on the Nile : art in Egypt between the Islamic and the contemporary /

Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seggerman, Alex Dika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Future publics : the transnational origins of Egyptian modernism
  • Mahmoud Mukhtar's pharaonic classicism and pedagogical nationalism
  • Lawyerly luxury of easel painting : Mahmoud Said
  • The beauty of uncertainty : Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar and the "return" of religion in art
  • Potent flows : the fellaha and water jug.