Title Creative reckonings : the politics of art and culture in contemporary Egypt / Jessica Winegar

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 377 pages), 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map Series Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. Contents Cultural politics and genealogies of the modern in the postcolony -- Amina Mansur : the map of love -- Becoming an Egyptian artist : "freethinking" in the mainstream -- Muhammad Mukhtar, Al-Ginubi : season of migration to the north -- Cultural authenticity, artistic personhood, and frames of evaluation -- Muhammad ʻAbla : Nile sparrows -- Freedom of talk : cultural policy and the transforming state -- Mustafa al-Razzaz : Book of revelations -- Cultivating civilized publics -- Gazibiyya Sirri : the search : personal papers -- Collecting a nation, displaying (a) culture -- ʻAbd al-Hadi al-Gazzar : I say to you -- Art and culture between empire and sovereignty -- Raghib ʻAyad : return of the spirit Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-369) and index Notes English Print version record In ACLS Humanities E-Book. Subject Art and society -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century Art and society -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century Art -- Political aspects -- Egypt -- History -- 21st century Art and society Art -- Political aspects Visual Arts. Art, Architecture & Applied Arts. Visual Arts - General. Egypt Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780804754767 0804754764 0804754772 9780804754774

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