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Author Seggerman, Alex Dika

Title Modernism on the Nile : art in Egypt between the Islamic and the contemporary / Alex Dika Seggerman.

Imprint Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019].

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Location Call No. Status
 Male Library  N7381.75.M63 S44 2019    Available
Description xvii, 254 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
Islamic civilization & Muslim networks
Note KH-AUL-8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Modernism (Art) -- Egypt
Art, Egyptian -- 20th century
Art, Modern -- Islamic influences
Islamic modernism -- Middle East
Art and transnationalism -- Egypt
ISBN 9781469653044 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781469653051 (ebook)