History Regained: A Modern Artist in Baghdad Encounters a Lost Tradition of Painting
This essay explores how the re-encounter with a medieval history of manuscript illustration laid a foundation for the practice of modern art in Iraq. It focuses on the artist Jewad Selim (1919-61) and his discovery of Yahya al-Wasiti's illustrations of the Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, but it also marks t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2018]
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Muqarnas
Year: 2018, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 229-272 |
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Eustache de Lorey
B global modernism B Baghdad Group for Modern Art B Baghdad School B Iraq B Jewad Selim B Yahya al-Wasiti |
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