Modernism on the Nile
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126537
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130457
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330134608
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  alternate name: Art, Egyptian--20th century
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  alternate name: Arts and transnationalism--Egypt
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  alternate name: Art, Modern--Islamic influences
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  alternate name: Islamic modernism--Middle East--History--20th century
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  alternate name: Modernism (Art)--Egypt--History--20th century
abstract: Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have appeared to be secular, she argues, it reflected the subtle but essential inflection of Islam, as a faith, history, and lived experience, in the overarching development of Middle Eastern modernity. Challenging typical views of modernism in art history as solely Euro-American, and expanding the conventional periodization of Islamic art history, Seggerman theorizes a "constellational modernism" for the emerging field of global modernism. Rather than seeing modernism in a generalized, hyperconnected network, she finds that art and artists circulated in distinct constellations that encompassed finite local and transnational relations. Such constellations, which could engage visual systems both along and beyond the Nile, from Los Angeles to Delhi, were materialized in visual culture that ranged from oil paintings and sculpture to photography and prints. Based on extensive research in Egypt, Europe, and the United States, this richly illustrated book poses a compelling argument for the importance of Muslim networks to global modernism.
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310206942
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Introduction : The constellation of Egyptian modernism -- Future publics : the transnational origins of Egyptian modernism -- Mahmoud Mukhtar's pharaonic classicism and pedagogical nationalism -- Lawyerly luxury of easel painting : Mahmoud Said -- The beauty of uncertainty : Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar and the "return" of religion in art -- Potent flows : the fellaha and water jug -- Conclusion: At the intersection of Islam and the modern.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301307149

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