Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Esanu, Octavian, editor

Title Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East : the Arab Nude
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

Copies

Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series Routledge Research in Art History
Contents 1. Introduction: 'The Arab nude' / Octavian Esanu -- 2. Necessary nudes: Hadatha and Mu'asara in the Lives of Modern Lebanese / Kirsten Scheid -- 3. Early Representations of nudity in the Ottoman press: a look at nineteenth-century Ottoman and Arabic erotic literatures / Hala Auji -- 4. Ideal nudes and iconic bodies in the works of the Egyptian pioneers / Nadia Radwan -- 5. The nudism of Sheikh Fouad Hobeiche / Hala Bizri -- 6. The feminine nude as an expression of modernity in the workd of Mahmud Mukhtar / Elka M. Correa-Calleja -- 7. Bare language / Nadia Bou Ali -- 8. Msalkha, or the anti-nude / Saleem Al-Bahloly
Summary "This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by scholars from several disciplines (art history, history, anthropology). Each chapter provides a distinct perspective on the early days of the fine arts genre of the nude, as its author studies a particular aspect through analysis of artworks and historical documents from the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. The volume examines a rich body of reproductions of both primary documents and of works of art made by Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian artists or of anonymous book illustrations from the nineteenth century Ottoman erotic literature."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Art, Arab.
Female nude in art.
ART -- History -- General.
Art, Arab
Female nude in art
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315121970
1315121972