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The art salon in the Arab region : politics of taste making / edited by Nadia von Maltzahn and Monique Bellan.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Beirut : Orient-Institut ; Würzburg : Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 2018.
©2018
Description
310 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm
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Subject(s)
Art
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Arab countries
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Exhibitions
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History
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Public art
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Arab countries
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Exhibitions
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History
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Art and society
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Arab countries
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History
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Salons
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Arab countries
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History
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von Maltzahn, Nadia, 1983-
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Bellan, Monique
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Series
Beiruter Texte und Studien ; Bd. 132.
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Beiruter Texte und Studien ; Band 132
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Summary note
"This volume discusses the emergence and role of the art salon in the Arab region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Institutional forms of exhibiting and teaching art emerged in the Middle East and North Africa in late colonial and early post-colonial contexts. The book examines how the salon had an impact on the formation of taste and on debates on art, and discusses the transfers and cultural interactions between the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Following the institutional model of the Paris salons, art salons emerged in Algiers, Tunis and Cairo starting in the late 1880s. In beirut, the salon tradition reached its peak only after independence in the mid-twentieth century. Baghdad never had a formal salon, but alternative spaces and exhibition formats developed in Iraq from the late 1940s onwards. As in Paris, the salons in the region often defined the criteria of artistic production and public taste. The impact of the salon also lay in its ability to convey particular values, attitudes and aspirations. At the same time, the values and attitudes promoted by the salon - as well as the salon itself - were often subject to debate, which led to the creation of counter-salons or alternative exhibition practices. The art salon helps us to understand changes in the art systems of these countries, including the development of art schools, exhibition spaces and artist societies, and gives insight into the power dynamics at play. It also highlights neworks and circulations between the Arab region and Europe"--Back cover
Notes
Conference proceedings.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-300) and index.
Contents
The art salon in the Arab region / Nadia von Maltzahn
The annual art salons in Tunisia under the French Protectorate / Alain Messaoudi
The concept of "decorative" art in Tunisian salons: roots of the Tunisian École / Jessica Gerschultz
The aesthetics of taste making in (and out of) the colonial Algerian salon / Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi
Archival testimonies of the Cairo salon's early years (1891-1904) / Maria-Mirka Palioura
How a ceramic vase in the art salon changed artistic discourse in Egypt / Nadia Radwan
Defying the order form within: art et liberté and its reordering of visual codes / Monique Bellan
Alternative salons: cultivating art and architecture in the domestic spaces of post-World War II Baghdad / Amin Alsaden
Patterns for glory: the reward system in North African art salons under French rule around 1900 / Camilla Murgia
From Egypt to Europe and back: Egyptian state patronage and circulation of art abroad since 1989 / Catherine Cornet
Guiding the artist and the public? the Salon d'Automne at Beirut's Sursock Museum / Nadia von Maltzahn
In conversation with British artist Eileen Cooper, RA.
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ISBN
9783956505270 ((hardbound))
3956505271 ((hardbound))
LCCN
2019379075
OCLC
1090544535
International Article Number
9783956505270
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