...Amina Diab Free Art and Surrealist Aesthetics Resituating the Art and Liberty Group in Egyptian Art History Amina Diab O n December 22, 1938, a group of artists and intellectuals coalesced to sign a manifesto titled Long Live Degenerate Art! (Yahya alfann al munhat The manifesto, distributed...

...Alex Dika Seggerman This paper contextualizes the Art and Liberty group within the scope of Egyptian modern art. In doing so, it argues that this movement does not simply translate “central” Parisian surrealism to so-called “peripheral” Cairo. Rather, Art and Liberty represents a pivot...

... and Liberty, a group of Egyptian artists and writers who resisted the Nazi and fascist risings before and after World War II. Anchored by Samir Gharib’s Surrealism in Egypt and Plastic Arts ; correspondence between photographer Lee Miller, living in Cairo in the 1940s, and British artist and poet Roland...

...Samir Gharib; Chihab El Khachab The author begins by providing a summarized timeline of the beginning and development of surrealism in Egypt, with a focus on the activities of the Art and Liberty group, inspired and established in 1939 by Georges Henein. Nearly 50 years later, in 1986, the author...

... surrealists, and their contributions to internationalism, antifascist global protest, and decolonization, staged and performed outside the West. The artistic and intellectual output of the Egyptian surrealists was primarily centered around activities initiated by the Art and Liberty group (Jama’at al-Fann Wa...

... impact introducing, interpreting, and dispersing these ideas among writers, artists, and the public in Egypt for more than two decades. He was most active in Cairo during the years surrounding the Second World War, founding in 1938 the Art and Liberty group of writers and artists, who spread their ideas...

...Ola Seif When the Art and Liberty group launched its activities in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the young Levon Boyadjian (later to become the famous Van-Leo) and his elder brother, Angelo, were jointly debuting their careers as photographers in Cairo. Van-Leo’s archive of photographic prints...

..., exploring pre-surrealist thoughts prior to the founding of the Art and Liberty group. Georges Henein publishes De l irrealisme ( Irrealism ) in Un Effort, another publication that conveys Henein s early thinking on surrealism. 1936 Georges Henein returns to Paris and meets with André Breton. Anwar Kamel...

...May Telmissany Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Kamel Telmisany s Surrealist Unrest May Telmissany O n January 19, 1939, the Art and Liberty group was formed in Cairo, a few months following the publication of the foundational Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art, written...

... whose original leaders are long gone and who becomes a witness to the politics and aesthetic acts that shaped its evolution, namely, the Egyptian surrealists and, more specifically, the Art and Liberty group s successor, the Contemporary Art Group, in which Youssef was a founding member. The video...

... to Anwar Kamel, a fellow member of the Art and Liberty group typically relates to the notion of grandeur. But this does not form any new relationship between us and the night. The truth is we are not after a metaphor as much as we are after a recollection. The recollection is tinged with a general symbol...

... surrealism s founders and the new artists, which our poet friend Al Samah Abdel Nour named al-Fas il (Seedlings). It included the work of the new generation and texts by members of the Art and Liberty group in order to make a statement about the spiritual unison of the two generations of artists. On his...

... who wanted to argue that Liberia was a ‘little America Scruggs, “‘The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here 140. 12 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art • 41 • November 2017 7 ugustus A Washington, “First Seven Weeks in Liberia...

... as suspect. I argue that this sign is not only experienced as everyday anti-blackness but is in fact precisely that: anti-black. Not only does the sign reinforce stigmatizing representations of people racialized as black (thus “b” in lowercase), such visual imagery, guised as public art, also negates any...

... in Continental values and ideals staked their claims relation to the notion of an African diaspora, in the art world through an engagement with inherent is a sense that this categorical grouping of dominant culture. Generally, artistic responses people share a cultural link...

.... As Kaisary’s emphasis on the artist’s dedication to the one of the founding figures of the BLK Art Group, “issue of the representation of black empowerment in addition to his seminal role as a leading critic and and black victimhood” within his Toussaint series theorist, Eddie Chambers paves the way...

...Tumelo Mosaka Copyright © 2000 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2000 LIBERATED VOICES Contemporary Art...

...Jody B. Cutler-Bittner [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS FAITH RINGGOLD: AMERICAN PEOPLE THE NEW MUSEUM, NEW YORK FEBRUARY 17 JUNE 5, 2022 Among my most memorable art exp­ er­ iences was visiting the New Museum s exhibition Dancing at the Louvre: Faith...

... being classified or grouped into an art move• ment by critics. Member...

... and Mamadou died later; he was traumatized because his younger brother died. The group was repatriated and they brought Mamadou’s body back.” 136 •Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art...