Publisher:
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London
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...
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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days of the fine arts genre of the nude, as its author studies a particular aspect through analysis of artworks and historical documents from the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.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
"Most of the papers [...] were first delivered at the American University of Beirut (AUB) during the conference accompanying the 2016 exhibition 'The Arab Nude: The Artist as Awakener'." (Seite [ix])
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-149) and index
Octavian Esanu: Introduction. The 'Arab Nude'
Kirsten Scheid: 1. Necessary nudes: Hadatha and Muʻasara in the lives of modern Lebanese
Hala Auji: 2. Early representations of nudity in the Ottoman Press: a look at nineteenth-century Ottoman and Arab erotic literature
Nadia Radwan: 3. Ideal nudes and iconic bodies in the works of the Egyptian pioneers
Hala Bizri: 4. The nudism of Sheikh Fouad Hobeiche
Elka Correa: 5. The feminine nude as an expression of modernism through the works of Mahmoud Moukhtar
Nadia Bou Ali: 6. Bare language
Saleem Al-Baholy.: 7. Musallekhah, or the anti-nude
