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Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
The Egyptian art world is the oldest and largest in the Arab Middle East. Its artists must reckon with the histories of ancient Egypt, European modernism, anti-colonial nationalism, and state socialism-all in the context of a growing neoliberal economy marked by American global dominance. At this crucial intersection of culture, politics, and economy, Egypt's art and art...more
Hardcover, 416 pages
Published
October 11th 2006
by Stanford University Press
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The good thing about this book is that it's not "about Art" it's about artists and their world, in this case Egypt.
For me the most illuminating thing about it was the way the writer lays out for us the neocolonial processes the "international art world" practices on the artists that work on the "fringes" - outside of Europe and America.
The book contextualises the discourses of "art" as practiced now in Western art academies, instit...more
For me the most illuminating thing about it was the way the writer lays out for us the neocolonial processes the "international art world" practices on the artists that work on the "fringes" - outside of Europe and America.
The book contextualises the discourses of "art" as practiced now in Western art academies, instit...more
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