Research Catalog

Title

ARABECEDAIRE : Hamed Abdalla / editor, Morad Montazami.

Publication

• Paris : Zamân, 2018.
• ©2018

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Abdalla, Hamed, 1917-1985
• Montazami, Morad
• Davies, Clare, 1980-
• Khouri, Kristine
• Naguib, Ezzedine
• Mosaic Rooms (London, England), host institution.

Description

311 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

This publication examines the place of Egyptian Modernist painter Hamed Abdalla in transnational modern art history. Mobilizing the personal archives and library of the artist, Arabecedaire reflects on Abdalla's journeys and influences, bringing to light a vast and rich body of material which guided his painting practice. Hamed Abdalla (1917-1985) is an influential painter in Egyptian modernism. Self-taught, he had established himself as an artist by his early 20's. Frustrated by the political climate of his native country, Abdalla left Egypt to continue his career in Copenhagen during the 1960s. Here he crossed paths with artists associated with the CoBrA movement before he moved to France. Linking the origins of his abstract paintings to Islamic traditions and calligraphy, Abdalla explored the concept of the "creative word" or "talisman," the combination of a written word, a body shape and an abstract form, upon the canvas. In his work he reflected on the political change of the time, alongside his research into the visual ideas. Curator Morad Montazami notes "Abdalla represents a prolific 'archive' for different genealogies of trans-arab and Mediterranean modernities."

Alternative Title

Hamed Abdalla

Subjects

• Painters
• Painters > Egypt > 20th century > Catalogs
• Abdalla, Hamed, 1917-1985 > Archives > Catalogues d'exposition
• 1900-1999
• Catalogs
• Egypt
• Abdalla, Hamed, 1917-1985 > Catalogs
• Painting, Egyptian > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Abdalla, Hamed, 1917-1985 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Catalogs.

Note

• "This book is published to mark the exhibtion "Hamed Abdalla. ARABDECAIRE", held in The Mosaic Rooms, London, from 13 April to 23 June 2018"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Essays: Hamed Abdalla, eternal traveller / Ezzedine Naguib -- Hamed Abdalla's "creative-words" : the modern "Oriental" artist in search of a syncretic art / Clare Davies -- From city to city : Palesting and other ports of call / Kristine Khouri -- Hamed Abdalla, talismanic modernism / Morad Montazami.

ISBN

• 9791093781044
• 9791093781143

OCLC

• on1037055636
• 1037055636
• SCSB-9567917

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries