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Surrealism in Egypt : modernism and the Art and Liberty Group
\"The Surrealist, Cairo-based Art and Liberty Group was founded on 22 December 1938 with the publication of its manifesto Long Live Degenerate Art. [This book] is the first comprehensive analysis of Art and Liberty's artworks, literature and critical writings on Surrealism\"--Book jacket.
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Surrealism in Egypt
In the thick of the Second World War, the Cairo-based Surrealist collective Art et Liberte were pioneering new art forms and mounting subversive exhibitions that sent shockwaves across local artistic circles. Born with the publication of their Manifesto Long Live Degenerate Art on December 22nd, 1938, the group rejected the convergence of art and nationalism, aligning themselves with a complex, international and evolving Surrealist movement spanning cities such as Paris, London, Mexico City, New York, Beirut and Tokyo. Art and Liberty created a distinct reworking of Surrealism, which provided a generation of disillusioned Egyptian and non-Egyptian artists and writers, men and women alike, with a platform for cultural reform and anti-Fascist protest. Surrealism in Egypt is the first comprehensive analysis of Art and Liberty's artworks, literature and critical writings on Surrealism. By addressing the group's long-lost and often misconstrued legacy, and drawing on a substantial body of previously unpublished primary documents and more than 200 field interviews, the author charts Art and Liberty's significant contribution towards a new definition of Surrealism.Moving beyond the polarizing dichotomies of Saidian Orientalism, this book rewrites the history of Surrealism itself - advocating for a new definition of the movement that reflects an inclusive vision of art history.
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Surrealism in Egypt : modernism and the art and liberty group
\"The Surrealist, Cairo-based Art and Liberty Group was founded on 22 December 1938 with the publication of its manifesto Long Live Degenerate Art. [This book] is the first comprehensive analysis of Art and Liberty's artworks, literature and critical writings on Surrealism\"--Jacket.
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Paul Guiragossian : displacing modernity
Paul Guiragossian (1926-93) is one of the most influential artists to emerge from the Arab World in the 20th century. Born to Armenian parents, survivors of the Armenian Genocide, he experienced the consequences of exile, first as a child, and later as a young refugee from Jerusalem arriving in Beirut in the late 1940s. Guiragossian's personal experience of displacement led him to craft a formal style and critical stance that were at the forefront of modernism's search for a language that could aptly express the complexities of the human condition. From the monumental to the minute, the figurative to the abstract, Guiragossian's work is equally marked by a constant negotiation of a wide range of art-historical styles as well as a profound rootedness within the complexity of his immediate cultural and sociopolitical context.
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