Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920-1960 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alessandra Amin (Contribution by), Avinoam Shalem (Contribution by), Eveline Fijen (Contribution by)Publish date:2024-05-07Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wallach Art GalleryISBN-13:9781884919374ISBN-10:1884919375UPC:9781884919374Book Category:Art, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Africa, AnthropologyBook Topic:Permanent, East, Cultural & SocialSize:9.60 x 6.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCHTC9MJR4
Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab. Though spoken of as taboo and practically absent from Arab art production, the nude genre was important for early twentieth-century artists who sought to define their societies as post-Ottoman and cosmopolitan. Although recognized as foundational to Western art since...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wallach Art GalleryISBN-13:9781884919374ISBN-10:1884919375UPC:9781884919374Book Category:Art, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Africa, AnthropologyBook Topic:Permanent, East, Cultural & SocialSize:9.60 x 6.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCHTC9MJR4
Kirsten L. Scheid is the curator of the exhibition Partisans of the Nude held at the Wallach Art Gallery from October 6, 2023 through January 14, 2023. She is a Professor of Anthropology and Art Studies at the American University of Beirut and researches the anthropology of modern and contemporary Arab art, imaginations/ontologies, de/coloniality, materiality, gender, Islam, art theory and...
Publisher: Wallach Art Gallery
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