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Surrealism in Egypt : modernism and the Art and Liberty Group / Sam Bardaouil.
Fine Arts Library N7381.75.S97 B37 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bardaouil, Sam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surrealism--Egypt.
- Surrealism.
- Modernism (Christian theology)--Egypt.
- Modernism (Christian theology).
- Art, Egyptian--20th century.
- Art, Egyptian.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 338 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Modernism and the Art and Liberty Group
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2017.
- Summary:
- "The Surrealist, Cairo-based Art and Liberty Group was founded on 22 December 1938 with the publication of its manifesto Long Live Degenerate Art. [This book] is the first comprehensive analysis of Art and Liberty's artworks, literature and critical writings on Surrealism"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Art and Liberty: A Prehistory 33
- 2 Fascism at Home: Towards a New Reading of Art and Liberty's Founding Manifesto of December 22, 1938 48
- 3 Word to Picture, Picture to Word: The Literary and Pictorial Imagery of Art and Liberty 85
- 4 Art and Liberty and the Reworking of Surrealism 120
- 5 Art and Liberty and British Surrealism: Parallels and Overlaps 156
- 6 From Theory to Practice: The Exhibition as Protest, Art as Rupture 173
- 7 A Legacy Interrupted: From Art and Liberty to Bread and Liberty 203
- 8 Post-War Rupture: Art and Liberty and the Beginning of the End 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781784536510
- 1784536512
- OCLC:
- 962408558
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