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Saeb Eigner - Artists of the Middle East, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Artists of the Middle East

1900 to Now

Av Saeb Eigner

Del i serien Thames & Hudson

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An Art Newspaper Art Book of the Year The first-ever A–Z of the major modern and contemporary artists of the Middle East, a region attracting international attention for its new museums, private collections, exhibitions and art fairs. Saeb Eigner shares his intimate knowledge of the stylistic, literary and linguistic histories of the Middle East and North Africa in the detailed biographies of almost 100 culturally significant artists from the region, ranging from early modernists such as Shafic Abboud, Marwan, Bahman Mohassess and Gazbia Sirry to contemporary artists such as Mona Hatoum, Nabil Nahas and Shirin Neshat. Concise profiles of almost 160 additional artists offer further insight into those shaping this rich cultural landscape.This essential, illuminating resource for anyone interested in modern and contemporary art establishes a dialogue between works that engage with the prominent issues of our age and the ever-changing social, political and religious context of their creation.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-04-24
  • Mått: 250 x 300 x 40 mm
  • Vikt: 2 800 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Thames & Hudson
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780500026137
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Saeb Eigner is an Arabist with a deep knowledge of the Middle East and a committed advocate of the arts. For several decades he has been an avid collector of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, and much of his collection is on long-term loan to the London Business School (of which he has been a governor for many years). Saeb Eigner was a senior adviser on the British Museum’s exhibition Word into Art: Artists of the Middle East (2006; touring internationally from 2008, with Saeb acting as co-curator), and is author of Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran (foreword by Zaha Hadid; Merrell, 2010).

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'Ambitious ... Eigner expertly analyses key artistic movements from the Maghreb, including the Casablanca School, focusing also on Egypt’s vibrant art scene in the early 20th century, Sudan’s Khartoum School and the thriving art scenes in Damascus and Beirut until the onset of the 1975 civil war' - A Book of the Year, Art Newspaper

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