{"product_id":"9781838601096","title":"Modern Art in Egypt : Identity and Independence, 1850–1936","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eModern Art in Egypt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781838601096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"I.B. Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40721867145422,"sku":"9781838601096","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781838601096","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}