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Ahmed Morsi : a dialogic imagination

القاسمي، حور بنت سلطان، 1980- editor, حسن، صلاح، 1960- editor, مؤسسة الشارقة للفنون organizer, متحف الشارقة للفنون host institution

2021

Overview

\"After coming of age in the 1940s as part of the Alexandria School, a movement led by free thinkers and artists that marked the city's emergence as a postwar Mediterranean cultural entrepot, Ahmed Morsi spent time in Baghdad before moving to Cairo in the 1960s and eventually immigrating to New York in the 1970s. A painter, poet, printmaker, and critic, Morsi has created a diverse body of work abundant in mythic beauty. The Cairo journal he helped lead in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Galerie 68, became the voice of the Egyptian avant-garde, and he has also experimented with theatrical set design and artist's books. This volume highlights the rich interplay between Morsi's poetry and paintings and emphasises the way his multivalent practice conducts a dialogue with the wider world. Newly commissioned scholarly essays, commentaries from his contemporaries, selections from the artist's own writings, an interview with the artist, and numerous photographs and reproductions capture the vibrancy and impact of Morsi's prolific career. Also included are an extensive exhibition history, bibliography, and career chronicle.\" --sharjahart.org

• Publisher: Sharjah Art Foundation : The Africa Institute ; Skira editore S.p.A.,by Artbook/D.A.P
• Subject: مرسي، أحمد، 1930- Exhibitions / Art, Egyptian 21st century Exhibitions
• ISBN: 8857245659, 9788857245652

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N 7385 .M87 A4 2021	1	BOOK	EMIRATES