Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291) and index.
Contents:
Part 1: Reaching for Modernity: A Multicultural Renaissance -- Al-Nahda: The building blocks of a by-product -- Egypt as exhibition -- Art and Islam -- Part 2: Funun Jamila: A New Social Player -- Patrons -- The state -- The artist -- Georges Sabbagh (1887-1951): The son of the Orient -- Mohamed Naghi (1888-1956): 'Naghi d'Alexandrie' -- Mahmoud Mokhtar (1891-1934): The hyphen between ancient and modern -- Raghed Ayad (1892-1982): Godfather of the Egyptian gaze -- Mahmoud Saìˆd (1897-1964): In search of a 'happy island' -- Marguerite Nakhla (1908-1977): Life as it should be -- Conclusion: Decoding 1930s Egypt: The seeds of the Naksa -- Historical Timeline from 1850-1935.
Summary:
"Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working under the British occupation. Using Western-style academic art as a starting point, these artists championed cultural progress, re-appropriating Egyptian visual culture from European orientalists to found a neo-Pharaonic School of Realism. Modern Art in Egypt charts the years from Muhammad Ali's educational reforms to the mass influx of foreigners during the nineteenth-century. With a focus on the al-Nahda thought movement, this book provides an overview of the key policy-makers, reformists and feminists who founded the first School of Fine Arts in Egypt, as well as cultural salons, museums and arts collectives. By combining political and aesthetic histories, Fatenn Mostafa breaks the prevailing understanding that has preferred to see non-Western art as derivatives of Western art movements. Modern Art in Egypt re-establishes Egypt's presence within the global Modernist canon."-- Publisher description.
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