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Author Seggerman, Alex Dika, author

Title Modernism on the Nile : art in Egypt between the Islamic and the contemporary / Alex Dika Seggerman
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates in color) : illustrations
Series Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
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
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. Challenging 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Modernism (Art) -- Egypt -- History -- 20th century
Art, Egyptian -- 20th century
Art, Modern -- Islamic influences.
Islamic modernism -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century
Arts and transnationalism -- Egypt
ART -- Middle Eastern.
Art, Egyptian
Art, Modern -- Islamic influences
Arts and transnationalism
Islamic modernism
Modernism (Art)
Egypt
Middle East
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469653068
1469653060