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Modernism on the Nile - Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary (Hardcover)
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Modernism on the Nile - Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary (Hardcover)
Series: Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
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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.
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