Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East - The Arab Nude

List of contents

Introduction: The Arab Nude: A Genre of the Fine Arts as a Tool of Modernization
[Octavian Esanu]
1. Necessary Nudes: Hadatha and Mu’asara in the Lives of Modern Lebanese
[Kirsten Scheid]
2. Early Representations of Nudity in the Ottoman Press: A Look at Nineteenth-Century Ottoman and Arab Erotic Literature
[Hala Auji]
3. Ideal Nudes and Iconic Bodies in the Works of the Egyptian Pioneers
[Nadia Radwan]
4. The Nudism of Sheikh Fouad Hobeiche
[Hala Bizri]
5. The Feminine Nude as an Expression of Modernism Through the Works of Mahmoud Moukhtar
[Elka Correa]
6. Unveiling the Nude and the Crisis of Manhood
[Nadia Bou Ali]
7. Musallekhah, or the Anti-Nude
[Saleem Al-Baholy]

About the author

Octavian Esanu is Assistant Professor of Art History at the American University of Beirut.

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).

Additional text

"Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East: The Arab Nude is an important cross-disciplinary contribution to studies of art and intellectual history during the nahda, especially given the continued presumption of the scandalousness of these artworks."
--CAA Reviews

Product details

• Authors: Octavian Esanu, Octavian (American University of Beirut) Esanu
• Assisted by: Octavian Esanu (Editor), Octavian (American University of Beirut) Esanu (Editor), Esanu Octavian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138563834
• ISBN: 978-1-138-56383-4
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History; Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / General, ART / History / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, ART / Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, ART / Middle Eastern, ART / Subjects & Themes / Erotica, Middle East, History of art / art & design styles, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Modernism, Politics and government, Middle Eastern history, Gender studies, gender groups, General and world history, Contains explicit or offensive material or content, Human figures depicted in art, Erotic art, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General