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Alcove: Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists
Alcove: Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists
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Price: 179.55 AED
Publisher: Kaph Books
Publication Year: 2025
ISBN: 9786148035555
Spanning a pivotal time in Arab art, from the 1950s through to the 1980s, the book celebrates the lives, careers, and personas of some of the region's pioneering artists and features archival material, images of artworks as well as of the artists themselves. Alcove, from the Arabic "al qubba", meaning vault or chamber, reflects on the importance of these stories, inviting readers into a treasury of prized histories. The book is a compilation of articles narrated by the relatives, friends and students of modernists from the Arab world.
Featured artists: Shafic Abboud, Hamed Abdallah, Etel Adnan, Layla Al Attar, Nahil Bishara, Huguette Caland, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Ali Omar Ermes, Abdel Hadi El Gazzar, Paul Guiragossian, Mohammed Ghani Hikmat, Nabila Hilmi, Menhat Hilmy, Jumana El Husseini, Louay Kayyali, Helen Khal, Baya Mahieddine, Mohamed Melehi, Fateh Moudarres, Nuha Al Radi, Aref El Rayess, Mona Saudi, Juliana Seraphim, Abdullah Al Shaikh, Asim Abu Shakra, Hassan Sharif, Hussein Shariffe, Laila Shawa, Hedi Terki, and Madiha Umar
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