Modern Art in Egypt

Identity and Independence, 1850–1936

Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2020
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-83860-109-6 (ISBN)

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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.

Fatenn Mostafa is founder of ArtTalks | Egypt, a leading interdisciplinary, Cairo-based art space dedicated to the management of selected Egyptian artists’ estates - in addition to providing exhibition, publication, education and archiving services. Founded in 2009, the gallery has rigidly selected a roster of emerging artists to work exclusively with and has established itself as an authority on high quality secondary market works by twentieth century masters.

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE REACHING FOR MODERNITY: A MULTICULTURAL RENAISSANCE

CHAPTER 1: al-Nahda: The Building Blocks of a By-Product
1.1. Producing Knowledge
1.2. Cosmopolitanism and Mass Media

CHAPTER 2: EGYPT AS EXHIBITION
2.1. European Orientalism: The Art of the Other and the Foreign Complex
2.2. Orientalizing a New Industry: Villa Medici, Cercle Artistique and Exposition du Caire

CHAPTER 3: ART AND ISLAM

PART TWO FUNUN JAMILA: PATRONS, A STATE AND A NEW SOCIAL PLAYER

CHAPTER 4: The Patrons
4.1. The Egyptian School of Fine Arts in Cairo
4.2. Société des amis de l’art, Salon du Caire and Atelier of Alexandria
4.3. La Chimère and the Art Advocacy Group
4.4. Cultural Salons and the Woman Question

CHAPTER 5: The State
5.1. Building an Infrastructure
5.2. The Museum of Modern Art
5.3. Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil and his eponymous museum
5.4. Conclusion

CHAPTER 6: The Artist–The Emergence of a new social player
6.1. Egypt for Egyptians
6.2. Innovators vs. Conformists

PART THREE AL-RUWWAD: THE FIRST-GENERATION INNOVATORS

7. Georges Sabbagh (1887-1951): The (E)migrant Son
8. Mohamed Naghi (1888-1956): Naghi d’Alexandrie
9. Mahmoud Mokhtar (1891-1934): The Hyphen between Ancient and Modern
10. Ragheb Ayad (1892-1982): The Godfather of the Egyptian Gaze
11. Mahmoud Saïd (1897-1964): In Search of a Happy Island
12. Marguerite Nakhla (1908-1977): Life as it should be

CONCLUSION Decoding 1930s Egypt: The Seeds of the Naksa

TIMELINE
ENDNOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2020
Zusatzinfo	134 colour illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	244 x 282 mm
Gewicht	1580 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-83860-109-0 / 1838601090
ISBN-13	978-1-83860-109-6 / 9781838601096
Zustand	Neuware