Modern Arab art : : Formation of Arab Aesthetics

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Introduction : The polemics of modern Arab art -- Part I. Background and definitions : Formation and transformation -- Part II. Modern Arab aesthetics : Modern Arab attitude towards art -- Part III. The Arabic letter in art : Situating the Arabic letter in the artistic creation -- Contemporary experiments with the Arabic letter -- Conclusion : Arab art today.
"Modern Arab Art provides a historical and theoretical overview of the forces that have spawned artistic movements across the Middle East from the 1940s through today. Nada Shabout recognizes the important distinction between Arabic art and Islamic art, and views them as overlapping rather than synonymous subjects." "Based on interviews with Arab artists, reviews of Arabic resources, and visits to sites and galleries in the Arab world, Shabout provides an introduction to a field that has been long neglected. With particular emphasis on production, reception, and the intersection between art and politics in Iraq and Palestine, she reveals the fallacy in Western fascination with Arab art as a timeless and exotic "other.""--Jacket.

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