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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seggerman, Alex Dika, author.

Series:

Islamic civilization & Muslim networks

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art)--Egypt--History--20th century.

Modernism (Art).

Art, Egyptian--20th century.

Art, Egyptian.

Art, Modern--Islamic influences.

Art, Modern.

Islamic modernism--Middle East--History--20th century.

Islamic modernism.

Arts and transnationalism--Egypt.

Arts and transnationalism.

History.

Egypt.

Middle East.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates in color : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have appeared to be secular, she argues, it reflected the subtle but essential inflection of Islam, as a faith, history, and lived experience, in the overarching development of Middle Eastern modernity. 0Challenging typical views of modernism in art history as solely Euro-American, and expanding the conventional periodization of Islamic art history, Seggerman theorizes a "constellational modernism" for the emerging field of global modernism. Rather than seeing modernism in a generalized, hyperconnected network, she finds that art and artists circulated in distinct constellations that encompassed finite local and transnational relations. Such constellations, which could engage visual systems both along and beyond the Nile, from Los Angeles to Delhi, were materialized in visual culture that ranged from oil paintings and sculpture to photography and prints. Based on extensive research in Egypt, Europe, and the United States, this richly illustrated book poses a compelling argument for the importance of Muslim networks to global modernism.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469653044

1469653044

OCLC:

1089261127