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Modern Art in the Arab World, Primary Documents' offers an unprecedented resource for the study of modernism: a compendium of critical art writings by twentieth-century Arab intellectuals and artists. The selection of texts--many of which appear for the first time in English--includes manifestos, essays, transcripts of roundtable discussions, diary entries, letters, and the guest-book comments including those featured here. Traversing empires and nation-states, diasporas and speculative cultural and political federations, the book's documents bring light to the formation of a global modernism, through debates on originality, public space, spiritualism and art, postcolonial exhibition politics, and Arab nationalism, among many other topics. <br/><br/>The collection is framed chronologically, and includes contextualizing commentaries to assist readers in navigating its broad geographic and historical scope. Interspersed throughout the volume are sixteen contemporary essays: writings by scholars on key terms and events as well as personal reflections by modern artists who were themselves active in the histories under consideration. A newly commissioned essay by historian and Arab-studies scholar Ussama Makdisi provides a historical overview of the region's intertwined political and cultural developments during the twentieth century. Ussama Makdisi; Butrus al Bustani, Ahmed Fahmi, Muhammad Abduh, May Ziadeh, Amin Rihani, Khalil Gibran, Stephen Sheehi, Omar Racim, Ibrahim Abd al Qadir al Mazini, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Mohamed Naghi, Dina Ramadan, Azouaou Mammeri, Irene Kerame, Kirsten Scheid, Moustafa Farroukh, Mikhail Naimy, Kamel Telmisany, Ramses Younan, Anwar Kamel, Aziz Ahmad Fahmi, Nasri Atallah Susa, Cesar Gemayel, Jewad Salim, Hatem el Mekki, Aly Ben Salem, Mahmoud Messadi, Contemporary Art Group, Khaldun Sati al Husry, Urkhan Muyassar, Pierre Boucherle, Yahia Turki, Madiha Umar, Adham Ismail, Saloua Raouda choucair, Yahia Bahmed, Jean Senac,HArun Hashim Rashid, Shakir Hassan Al Said, Nasser Rabbat, Cheikh Ben Dhine, Mohamed Dahou, Ismail Ait Djafer, Adonis, Zakariya al Hijjawi, Jaleel Kamal al Din, Hamed Said, Salah Kamel, Inji Efflatoun, Mohamed Issiakhem, Abdul Aziz Alloun, Mahmoud Daadouch, Fateh al Modarres, Adnan Ibn Dhuray, Sarah Rogers, Jalal Khoury, Stelio Scamanga, |