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"This book is devoted to documenting the tremendous discursive energies of modern artists and critics who lived and worked in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East and North Africa."--Introduction Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Acknowledgments / Jay A. Levenson and Sarah Lookofsky -- Introduction: about this book / Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, Nada Shabout -- Essay: the making and unmaking of the Arab world / Ussama Makdisi. Defining painting : Taswir, peinture, painting (c.1882) / Butrus al-Bustani. On the benefits of art : The fine arts (1887) / Ahmed Fahmi -- Images and statues, their benefits and legality (1904) / Muhammad Abduh. Arab romantics : Something about art (1912) / May Ziadeh -- Letter to May Ziadeh (1920) / Armin Rihani -- Letter to May Ziadeh (1920) / Kahlil Gibran -- Draft essay (1920s) / Kahlil Gibran -- Renewal (1927) / Amin Rihani. In focus: Arab romanticism / Stephen Sheehi. Letter from Algiers to Paris : Letter to the director of the "Exhibition of Indigenous Art from the French Colonies" (1923) / Omar Racim. Sculpture and the public in Egypt : The Sphinx and Mokhtar's statue (1928) / Ibrahim Abd al-Qadir al-Mazini -- The response of sculptor Mokhtar to Mr. al-Mazini (1928) / Mahmoud Mokhtar. In defense of Egyptian popular art : The popular arts in Egypt (1928) / Mohamed Naghi. In focus: Cairo's School of Fine Arts and the pedagogical imperative / Dina Ramadan. Letter from Marrakesh to Algiers : Letter to Jean Alazard, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Algiers (1929) / Azouaou Mammeri. On the formation of a modern spirit : Modernism or tradition? (1929) / Irène Kéramé. In focus: cultivation discourses in the Arab East / Kirsten Scheid. Viewing the exhibition : Guest book entries for Zulfa al-Sa'di (1933) -- Guest book entries for Moustafa Farroukh (1933). Querying art and religion : Art and religion (1936) / Moustafa Farroukh -- The greatest art (1938) / Mikhail Naimy. The neo-Orientalists/Cairo : Manifesto of the neo-Orientalists (1937) / Kamel Telmisany. Egyptian art and freedom debates : The objective of the contemporary artist (1938) / Ramsès Younan -- Long live degenerate art! (1938) -- The art and liberty group (1939) / Anwar Kamel -- Studies in art: art and freedom 91939) / Aziz Ahmad Fahmi -- On degenerate art: a final word (1939) / Nasri Atallah Susa -- On degenerate art (1939) / Kamel Telmisany -- Art and dictatorship (1940) / Mohamed Naghi. Shaping the fate of the nation : The painter (1943) / César Gemayel. Iraq's wartime transformation : Diary entry (1944) / Jewad Selim. On agony and beauty : Thoughts on art (1944) / Hatem el Mekki -- Thoughts on art (1945) / Aly Ben Salem -- Thoughts on art (1945) / Omar Racim -- Thoughts on art: man and his agony (1945) / Mahmoud Messadi. Contemporary art group/Cairo : Contemporary Art Group, first declaration (1946) / Husayn Yusuf Amin, Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar, Mahmoud Khalil, Ibrahim Massouda, Mogli (Salem el-Habshi), Hamed Nada, Maher Raef, Samir Rafi, Kamal Youssef -- Contemporary Art Group, second declaration (1948). Plates I (1-25). Surrealist sensitivities : From an old diary (1947) / Khaldun Sati al-Husry -- Notes from "Surreal" (1947) / Urkhan Muyassar. Petition for the 1 percent law/Tunis : Letter to the Resident General in Tunis (1948) / Pierre Boucherle and Yahia Turki. An early declaration of Huroufiyah : Arabic calligraphy: an inspiring element in abstract art (1949-50) / Madiha Umar. In focus: Huroufiyah: the Arabic letter as visual form / Nada Shabout. Imagining an immortal Arab art : Speech delivered at Damascus's Maydan High School (1951) / Adham Isma'il. Toward a material modernism : How the Arab understood visual art (1951) / Saloua Raouda Choucair. Baghdad group for modern art : Manifesto (1951) / Baghdad Group for Modern Art -- The renewal of art (1951) / Jewad Selim. The cultural politics of exhibitions : Letter to the Department of Interior and Fine Arts (1952) / Yahia Bahmed -- On the presentation of a collective exhibition (1953) / Jean Sénac -- Exhibition of a Palestinian artist (1953) / Harun Hashim Rashid -- About the third exhibition at the British Cultural Council (1953) / Shakir Hassan Al Said. In focus: the Nakba and Arab culture / Nasser Rabbat. Algerian Group of the Lettrist International/Algiers : Manifesto (1953) / Cheikh Ben Dhine, Mohamed Dahou, Ismail Ait Djafer. A call to human heritage : The meaning of painting (1953) / Adonis Considering Arab art and artists : Artists' questionnaire: "art and Arab life" (1956) -- The question of form: between national realism and the psychological moment (1956) / Zakariya al-Hijjawi. Reviewing the Iraqi revolution : At "The exhibition of the revolution" (1958) / Jaleel Kamal al-Din. Proclaiming Arab unity : The freedom of art (1958) / Hamed Said -- Text for the United Arab Republic Pavilion, Venice biennale (1960) / Salah Kamel. In focus: biennials and Arab representation / Anneka Lenssen. Cairo: limits on freedom : Recollections of imprisonment (1959-63) / Inji Efflatoun. Materials for a new Algerian art : Painting (1960) / M'hamed Issiakhem. Plastic arts movement/Damascus : Manifesto of the plastic arts movement in Syria (1962) / Abdul Aziz Alloun, Mahmoud Daadouch, Fateh al-Moudarres -- Letter to Salman Qataya (1962) / Abdul Aziz Alloun -- You're entitled to your opinion (1962) / Adnan Ibn Dhurayl. In focus: art and political patronage during the Cold War / Sarah Rogers. Making spaces in Beirut : Opening of Gallery One: a first exhibit art institution of its kind (1963) -- Remarks on the autumn exhibition: I am uncultured! (1964) / Jalal Khoury -- Toward a new space: the perspective of the abstract (1964) / Stélia Scamanga. Personal reflection: three years of teaching art in Khartoum, 1962-65 / Amir Nour. Plates 2 (26-49). Art after the Algerian revolution : Painting and the people (1963) -- Presentation at Gallery 54 (1964) / Jean Sénac -- Elements for a new art (1964) / Mohamed Khadda -- Elements for a new art (1964) / Choukri Mesli -- Elements for a new art (1964) / Abdallah Benanteur -- Art and the Algerian revolution (1964) / Henri Kréa. Exploratory abstraction : Meaningless within and without (1964) / Fouad Kamel. The challenge of art : A trailing zero: Damascus letter (1965) / Muhammad al-Maghout -- Letter to Farouq al-Buqayli (1966) / Mahmoud Hammad. Contemplative art/Baghdad : Manifesto (1966) / Shakir Hassan Al Said. Presenting new Tunisian painting : A true language of forms: interview with Nja Mahdaoui (1966) / Moncef S. Badday -- A language in his land's dimensions: interview with Naceur Ben Cheikh (1966) / Moncef S. Badday -- Against neocolonialsm in painting: interview with Najib Belkhodja (1966) / Ferid Boughedir. Morocco's Casablanca school dialogues : On the concept of painting and the plastic language (1966) / Mohammed Chebaa -- The situation of the Moroccan painter (1967) / Toni Maraini -- Responses to the "Souffles" artists' questionnaire (1967) / Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, Mohammed Hamidi, Jilali Gharbaoui, Mohammed Melehi. Debating North African art at home and away : Six North African painters speak out: painting in North Africa, an alarming situation (1967) / Abdallah Benanteur, Ahmed Cherkaoui, André Elbaz, Abdel Kader Guermaz, Edgard Naccache, Mahmoud Sehili -- International passes through nationalism (1967) / Zubeir Turki -- Art must reach the universal and must not become a national crafts industry: interview with AndréElbaz (1967) / Zakya Daoud. Aouchem Group/Algiers and Blida : Manifesto (1967) / Hamid Abdoun, Mustafa Adane, Baya (Fatma Haddad-Mahieddine), Mohamed Ben Baghdad, Mahfoud Dahmani, Denis Martinez, Choukri Mesli, Said Saidani, Arezki Zerati. Circulism and kinetics in Kuwait : Kinetic art: a movement that represents the new man (1966) -- Interview with the artist Khalifa Qattan (1967) / Sulayman al-Shatti. In focus: experiments in modern Arabic typography / Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès. Accounting for the June 1967 war : (....) (1968) / Hassan Soliman -- Manifesto: towards a new vision (1969) / Dia al-Azzawi, Ismail Fattah, Saleh al-Jumaie, Muhammad Muhraddin, Rafa al-Nasiri, Hashem Samarji -- You, the Arab artist who rejects the West, what is your East?: interview with Adel Saghir, Stélio Scamanga, Mounir Najm (1969) / Samir Sayegh -- Al-Tali'a symposium roundtable (1969). Personal reflection: from dreams to achievements: a Jordanian artist in the era of 1968 / Mona Saudi. Exhibition at Djema al FNA/Marrakesh : Statement (1969) / Mohammed Ataallah, Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chebaa, Mustapha Hafid, Mohammed Hamidi, Mohammed Melehi. Transforming the arts of the revolution: On art and combat (1970) / Tahar Ben Jelloun -- Art in the time of the Palestinian revolution (1971) / Kamal Boullata -- Drawing in three dimensions (1971) / Vladimir Tamari. In focus: revolutionary film: the Palestine film unit / Mohanad Yaqubi. Arab art in federation : Statement of the Founding Committee of the Union of Arab Plastic Artists (1971) -- Arab art... and its position in relation to the world's art (1971) / Mahmoud Hammad -- The Arab artist's rights and his obligations 91971) / Fateh al-Moudarres. Exhibition articulations in Iraq : Presence in the object and the object's presence in transformation, the becoming of consciousness (1971) / Yahya al=Sheikh -- Circulism: why circulism? What is circulism? (1971) / Qutaiba al=Sheikh Nouri -- Quantum realism: an art of processes (1971) / Mahmoud Sabri. Personal reflection: notes on Contact Art Gallery, 1972-75 / Waddah Faris. A transregional critical terrain : A note on the calligraphic sign (1973) / Abdelkebir Khatibi -- Light: the ultimate material for art (1973) / Etel Adnan. Art and the letter : The philosophical, technical, and expressive aspects of the one dimension (1973) / Shakir Hassan Al Said -- The civilizational quality of the one dimension (1973) / Qutaiba al-Sheikh Nouri -- About the letter...a response (1973) / Jamil Hamoudi. The diasporic divide : An Arab artist between Damascus and Berlin (1973) / Na'im Isma'il. New realism/Baghdad : Manifesto of new realism (1973) / Abdal-Razzaq Ali Jawdat, Muhammad Arif, Shams al-Din Faris, Ibrahim al-Kamali. Response to the October 1973 war : Letter to the editor of "Monday Morning" (1973) / Aref El Rayess. Personal reflection: graphic design and the visual arts in Iraz / Dia al-Azzawi. In focus: graphic art in the Arab world / May Muzaffar. Arab biennial initiatives and critiques : Art inspired by the people, the struggle, and liberation in the trilogy of heritage, the present, and contemporaneity (1973) -- Discussion forum from the first Arab biennial (1974) -- Manifesto of the Moroccan Association of Plastic Arts (1974) -- Exploding artistic and cultural handicaps (1974) / Dia al-Azzawi. Life as a Palestinian artist : The Palestinian people's consciousness and aesthetic expression (1975) / Mustafa al-Hallaj. Khartoum dialogues : The Crystalist Manifesto (1976) / Hassan Abdallah, Hashim Ibrahim, Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq, Muhammad Hamid Shaddad, Naiyla Al Tayib -- Commentary (1976) / Abdallah bola -- Commentary (1976) / Mohamed Abusabib -- Exhibition statement (1980) / Muhammad Hamid Shaddad. Second Arab biennial in Rabat : Manifesto of the Association of Moroccan Plastic Artists (1976) -- Interview with Fouad Bellamine (1978). On the desert style in Saudi Arabia : A word for the sake of art (1976) / Mohammed Al-Saleem -- Exhibition statement (1976) / Mohammed Al-Saleem. Thinking through culture during the Lebanese civil wars : PRoposal for a cultural policy (1977) / Janine Rubeiz. Environmental art at Asilah : Statements from participants of the First International Cultural Moussem (1978). In focus: Yemen's free Atelier: history and context in the Arabian Peninsula / Anahi Alviso-Marino. The closure of Gallery 79/Ramallah : Statement (1980). Debating commitment in a new Egypt : From "The Artist's Freedom" (1980) / Hassan Soliman -- The axis continues (1982) / The Axis Group: Farghali Abdel Hafiz, Abd al-Rahman al-Nashar, Ahmed Nawar, Mostafa El Razzaz -- Statement against "artistic racism (1984) / Mukhtar el Attar, Mahmoud Baqshish, Inji Efflatoun, Kamal al-Juweili, Salah Abdel Kerim, Saad El-Mansouri, Ezzedine Nabuib, Subhi al-Sharuni, Abbas Shohdi -- Spotlight on a spotlight (1984) / Mostafa El Razzaz. Contemporary modes in the United Arab Emirates : To contemplate is to lay a foundation (1985) / Al-Tashkeel Cultural Committee: Abdul Jalil Jawad, Abdulraheem Salim, Hassan Sharif, Abdul Latif Al Smoudi -- On "Wooden Columns" (1986) / Ahmed Rashid. Personal reflection: along new paths: the new visions art collective in occupied Palestine / Vera Tamari -- Index -- Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art |
