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A la recherche d'une modernité arabe : l'évolution des arts plastiques en Egypte, au Liban et en Irak / Silvia Naef.
- Title
- A la recherche d'une modernité arabe : l'évolution des arts plastiques en Egypte, au Liban et en Irak / Silvia Naef.
- Author
- Naef, Silvia
- Publication
- Genève : Slatkine, 1996.
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- Description
- 450 p., xlviii p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Despite an increased sensitivity to postmodernist discourse, the debate over modernity which, from the nineteenth century, swept over the region, is far from over in the Arab world, as the evolution of plastic arts. Indeed, between 1880 and 1920, the forms of artistic expression specific to the Islamic tradition were replaced by the Western conception. A new infrastructure is created: academies, museums of fine arts and official exhibitions (salons) contribute to introduce academic art in the East. Until the 1950s, it won its place in the intellectual and social life of the elites, but also in the urban space, now marked by an element entirely unknown before: monuments. The discovery of the upheavals that have occurred in the european visual arts since the beginning of the century, in conjunction with the consolidation of nationalist consciousness, lead to a radical change, bearing on two parallel axes, modernity and authenticity. If modernity is borrowed from the West, authenticity will be drawn from heritage, a term by which we generally designate everything that the different civilizations of the Near East produced before the eruption of Western culture. Due to the age and importance of the artistic movement, three countries have played a key role: Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. It is the evolution in these three countries that is studied here. -- Translated from the back cover.
- Series Statement
- Arabiyya, 0224-5868 ; 13
- Uniform Title
- Arabiyya no 13.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-426) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 2051013764
- LCCN
- ^^^96209631^
- OCLC
- 35832333
- SCSB-12878621
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library