Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris - Hardcover
by Alice Kaplan
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alice KaplanSeries:Abakanowicz Arts and Culture CollectionPublish date:2024-10-15Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226835082ISBN-10:226835081UPC:9780226835082Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ArtBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, Arab & Middle Eastern, Middle EasternSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC1VPJDG27
Seeing Baya: Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris
The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth. On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker known as Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring the skirts in fashion magazines. Three years later, in November 1947, her paintings and fanciful clay beasts were featured in a solo show in...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226835082ISBN-10:226835081UPC:9780226835082Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ArtBook Subcategory:Artists, Architects, Photographers, Arab & Middle Eastern, Middle EasternSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.411Product ID:SC1VPJDG27
Alice Kaplan is the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University. She is coauthor of States of Plague, with Laura Marris, and author of French Lessons, The Collaborator, Looking for "The Stranger," and Dreaming in French, all also published by the University of Chicago Press. She has been a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. She lives in...
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