Art, awakening, and modernity in the Middle East : the Arab nude \ edited by Octavian Esanu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esanu, Octavian, editor.

Series:

Routledge research in art history

Routledge Research in Art History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Arab.

Female nude in art.

Physical Description:

xii,155 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by scholars from several disciplines (art history, history, anthropology). Each chapter provides a distinct perspective on the early days of the fine arts genre of the nude, as its author studies a particular aspect through analysis of artworks and historical documents from the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. The volume examines a rich body of reproductions of both primary documents and of works of art made by Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian artists or of anonymous book illustrations from the nineteenth century Ottoman erotic literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-149) and index.

ISBN:

9781138563834

1138563838

OCLC:

1005731382