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Modern Egyptian art, 1910-2003 / Liliane Karnouk.
- Title
- Modern Egyptian art, 1910-2003 / Liliane Karnouk.
- Author
- Karnouk, Liliane.
- Publication
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N7381.7 .K37 2005 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 274 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- "Examining the work of over 70 artists from 1910 until the present day, Liliane Karnouk traces the parallel steps of modern Egyptian art and the social and political environment in which that art was and continues to be created. Fully illustrated with over 280 color and black-and-white illustrations, this comprehensive volume is both a feast for the eyes and a mine of information for artists and non-specialists alike."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Egyptian awakening -- The cosmopolitans -- The folk realists -- Design for a new Egypt -- The revolutionary years (1952-67) --Modernism and art appropriations -- Internationalism and abstraction -- Premodernism or postmodernism? -- Islamic art revival -- Pluralism in styles -- The kitsch wave: a transition or an end? -- The nineties -- The body -- The environment from Nubia to Mare Nostrum -- History, words, and books -- Photography and video.
- ISBN
- 9774248597
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library