Anna's Egypt : an artist's journey / Anna Boghiguian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boghiguian, Anna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boghiguian, Anna.

Egypt--In art.

Egypt.

Egypt--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2003.

Summary:

Anna Boghiguian, one of Egypt's foremost contemporary artists, has traveled the globe and recorded her artistic reaction to each new place in drawings and paintings in the note-books she carries everywhere. But her roads through India or Cambodia, Canada or France always come back to the land of her birth, Egypt. Her drawings of Egypt reflect her instinctive and emotional responses to the country's many layers of history and myth, and to the people, ancient and modern, grand and everyday, who populate those histories and myths with such entrancing spirit. In this very personal presentation of Egypt, Anna Boghiguian shares both her visual and her verbal thoughts, as she leads us on a tour of this incredible land of fact and fiction, across space and in and out of time, through her words that paint pictures and her drawings that tell stories. This truly unique book is as much about the artist as it is about the land, and a treasure on both counts.

Contents:

Cairo

Al-Qahira

Port Said Street

'Ataba and Downtown

The Egyptian Museum

The Corniche

Ramsis

Heliopolis

Qasr al-'Ayni

Old Cairo

Giza

The Pyramids

The Oases

Aswan

Luxor

The Red Sea

Port Said

Alexandria

Siwa.

ISBN:

9774247248

9789774247248

OCLC:

51913066