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Record Nr.

UNINA9910418274303321

Autore

Radwan Nadia

Titolo

Les modernes d'Egypte : Une renaissance transnationale des Beaux-Arts et des Arts appliqués

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, [Switzerland] : , : Peter Lang, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

3-0343-2702-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Middle East, Social and Cultural Studies, , 1663-6384 ; ; 3 = Etudes culturelles et sociales sur le Moyen-Orient

Disciplina

709.2262

Soggetti

Art, Egyptian - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Nadia Radwan explores a key moment of the development of modern Egyptian art, when the foundations of a new artistic practice are defined in the early 20th century. Based on field work and unexplored archival material, this work focuses on a generation of painters and sculptors commonly referred to as the pioneers (al-ruwwad). Trained in institutions, such as the School of Fine Arts in Cairo, their production is inscribed in a project of artistic renaissance and reflects multiple transcultural interactions between Egypt and Europe. This publication thus re-evaluates these artists that opened the path to Egyptian modernism and sheds light their yet understudied production.