Ahmed Morsi : a dialogic imagination / [edited by] Hoor Al Qasimi, Salah M. Hassan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mursī, Aḥmad, 1930- artist.

Qāsimī, Ḥūr, editor, curator.

Hassan, Salah M., editor, curator.

Sharjah Art Foundation, organizer.

Matḥaf al-Shāriqah lil-Funūn, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mursī, Aḥmad, 1930---Exhibitions.

Mursī, Aḥmad.

Art, Egyptian--20th century.

Art, Egyptian.

Painters--Egypt--20th century.

Painters.

Poetry, Modern--20th century.

Poetry, Modern.

Mursī, Aḥmad, 1930-.

Egypt.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

333 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Dialogic imagination

Place of Publication:

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates : Sharjah Art Foundation : The Africa Institute ; Milano, Italy : Skira editore S.p.A., [2021]

Summary:

"After coming of age in the 1940s as part of the Alexandria School, a movement led by free thinkers and artists that marked the city's emergence as a postwar Mediterranean cultural entrepot, Ahmed Morsi spent time in Baghdad before moving to Cairo in the 1960s and eventually immigrating to New York in the 1970s. A painter, poet, printmaker, and critic, Morsi has created a diverse body of work abundant in mythic beauty. The Cairo journal he helped lead in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Galerie 68, became the voice of the Egyptian avant-garde, and he has also experimented with theatrical set design and artist's books. This volume highlights the rich interplay between Morsi's poetry and paintings and emphasises the way his multivalent practice conducts a dialogue with the wider world. Newly commissioned scholarly essays, commentaries from his contemporaries, selections from the artist's own writings, an interview with the artist, and numerous photographs and reproductions capture the vibrancy and impact of Morsi's prolific career. Also included are an extensive exhibition history, bibliography, and career chronicle." --sharjahart.org

Contents:

Foreword / Hoor Al Qasimi

Ahmed Morsi : a dialogic imagination / Salah M. Hassan

Section I : Experimentation in diverse media

Writing

Galerie 68

The artist's book

Printmaking

Stage sets

Photography

'A touch of solitude and spirituality' : the exilic worlds of Ahmed Morsi / Dina Ramadan

The artist Ahmed Morsi : a visual poet / Edwar al-Kharrat

Section II : Between poetry and painting

Self-portraits across time

Portraits

Cityscapes

Women and music

Marathi al-Bahr al-Abyad

Iraq war

Time, memory, and surrealism

Humans, animals, and natural forms

Coupling, doubling, and mirroring

Ahmed Morsi : a poet and a painter of poetry / Samir Gharib

A conversation with Ahmed Morsi / Salah M. Hassan

Section III : Artist chronicle and bibliography

Artist chronicle

Exhibition history

Selected bibliography

Contributors

Credits

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Catalog for the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Sharjah Art Foundation, held 1 March - 3 June 2017 at the Sharjah Art Museum. Curators: Hoor Al Qasimi and Salah M. Hassan.

ISBN:

8857245659

9788857245652

OCLC:

1273668689