{"product_id":"modern-art-in-egypt-identity-and-independence-1850-1936-9781838601096","title":"Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, \u003ci\u003eModern Art in Egypt \u003c\/i\u003efills 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.   \u003ci\u003eModern Art in Egypt \u003c\/i\u003echarts the years from Muhammad Ali’s educational reforms to the mass influx of foreigners during the nineteenth-century. With a focus on the \u003ci\u003eal-Nahda \u003c\/i\u003ethought movement\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethis 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. \u003ci\u003eModern Art in Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e re-establishes Egypt’s presence within the global Modernist canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION   \u003cb\u003ePART ONE         REACHING FOR MODERNITY: A MULTICULTURAL RENAISSANCE\u003c\/b\u003e   CHAPTER 1:       \u003ci\u003eal\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eNahda\u003c\/i\u003e: 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 \u003ci\u003eOther\u003c\/i\u003e and the Foreign Complex 2.2.          Orientalizing a New Industry: Villa Medici, Cercle Artistique and Exposition du Caire   CHAPTER 3:        ART AND ISLAM   \u003cb\u003ePART TWO        FUNUN JAMILA: PATRONS, A STATE AND A NEW SOCIAL PLAYER\u003c\/b\u003e   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   \u003cb\u003ePART THREE   AL-RUWWAD: THE FIRST-GENERATION INNOVATORS\u003c\/b\u003e   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   \u003cb\u003eCONCLUSION  Decoding 1930s Egypt: The Seeds of the \u003ci\u003eNaksa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e         TIMELINE  ENDNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49413145887063,"sku":"9781838601096","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781838601096.jpg?v=1730519279","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modern-art-in-egypt-identity-and-independence-1850-1936-9781838601096","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}