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Saloua Raouda Choucair

Title: Saloua Raouda Choucair / edited by Jessica Morgan ; with essays by Ann Coxon, Jessica Morgan, Kirsten Scheid, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie.
Publication: London : Tate Publishing, 2013.

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176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm

Summary

Saloua Raouda Choucair, born in 1916 in Beirut, was the first abstract artist in Lebanon, and her exhibition in 1947 at the Arab Cultural Gallery in Beirut is considered to have been the Arab world's first abstract painting display. In 1948 she left Lebanon and went to Paris, where she studied at the Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts and attended Fernand Leger's studio. In 1950, she was one of the first Arab artists to participate in the Salon des Realites Nouvelles in Paris. By 1962 she began to concentrate completely on sculpture, and by 1963, she was awarded the National Council of Tourism Prize for the execution of a stone sculpture for a public site in Beirut. Choucair's work has been considered as one of the best examples of the spirit of abstraction characteristic of Arabic visual and geometric art, apparently disconnected from the observation of nature.--Provided by publisher.

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Note

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Saloua Raouda Choucair held at the Tate Modern, 16th April-20th October, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Distinctions that could be drawn : Choucair's Paris and Beirut / Kirsten Scheid -- The potentiality of the thing : Saloua Raouda Choucair's modular sculpture / Ann Coxon -- Two lovers in a park at midday : the urban imagination of Saloua Raouda Choucair / Kaelen Wilson-Goldie.

Call Number

JQF 16-178

ISBN

9781849761246
1849761248

OCLC

829056757

Title

Saloua Raouda Choucair / edited by Jessica Morgan ; with essays by Ann Coxon, Jessica Morgan, Kirsten Scheid, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie.

Publisher

London : Tate Publishing, 2013.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Morgan, Jessica, 1968- editor.

Coxon, Ann, contributor.

Scheid, Kirsten, 1970- contributor.

Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, contributor.

Tate Modern (Gallery), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-178

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