Cairo Stencils / Chant

Contributor(s):

Avedissian, Chant

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Saqi Books; 2006Description: 145p; 21x21cmISBN:

9780863560804

Subject(s):

Summary: Exhibition catalog. Artist's images are inspired by the academia of Egypt (writers, journalists, photographers, designers) in the Nasser era (1952-70). In his colorful stenciled images, Chant Avedissian deftly explores the boundaries between “high” and “low” art, politics and pop, the ephemeral and the enduring, and Egypt and the world. Avedissian refined his techniques in Western art schools, but he draws inspiration from Egypt's modern Golden Age, with its glamorous divas and mustachioed movie stars. This Egyptian-Armenian artist worked closely with Hassan Fathy as photographer and was instrumental in digitizing his donated professional drawings and organizing them into a usable archive that is now part of the Aga Khan Foundation.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	SAF Reference Library	Visual Arts	N4390-5098 32.475 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		4405

Exhibition catalog. Artist's images are inspired by the academia of Egypt (writers, journalists, photographers, designers) in the Nasser era (1952-70). In his colorful stenciled images, Chant Avedissian deftly explores the boundaries between “high” and “low” art, politics and pop, the ephemeral and the enduring, and Egypt and the world. Avedissian refined his techniques in Western art schools, but he draws inspiration from Egypt's modern Golden Age, with its glamorous divas and mustachioed movie stars. This Egyptian-Armenian artist worked closely with Hassan Fathy as photographer and was instrumental in digitizing his donated professional drawings and organizing them into a usable archive that is now part of the Aga Khan Foundation.

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