Adham Ismaʿil’s Arabesque: The Making of Radical Arab Painting in Syria
The essay explores how the Syrian artist Adham Ismaʿil (1922–63) linked his modernist painting strategies to the activism of the Baʿth political movement during Syria’s independence decade through a conceptual reworking of the “arabesque”—the rhythmic pattern of unending line and pure color that Or...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Muqarnas
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Adham Ismaʿil
Baʿth Party
Syria
Damascus
Arabism
abstract painting
arabesque
vitalism
political art
global modernism
comparative modernisms
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