Modern Islamic art
Subtitle: development and continuity
By: Wijdan Ali.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Subjects: Art, Islamic; Art, Middle Eastern -- 20th century; Art, Arab -- 20th century
Description: Wijdan Ali offers a historical survey of the development of modern painting in the Islamic world from the 19th century to the present. She provides background on dominant artistic traditions before 1900 as well as an evaluation of the loss of traditional aesthetics under the impress of Western culture. Ali also explores the persistence and reemergence of calligraphic art as an expression of national artistic identity, and hers is the first book to consider in depth the modern calligraphic school.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-218) and index.