...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...

... the writings of Georges Henein, Ramses Younan, Kamel Telmisany, and era poets, illuminating the ideology and creative output of Egyptian surrealist artists and thought leaders across more than five decades. Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Al Kitaba Al Ukhra Al Tatawwur Anwar Kamel...

... and classicist origins of Egyptian modern art. Second, an examination of the Long Live Degenerate Art manifesto explicates the complexity of the group’s ideology in its early days. Third, Kamel Telmisany’s (1915–72) shift from expressionist painter and draftsman to realist filmmaker signals how aesthetics...

... around the time the group was active, illustrated by seminal images of works by Kamel Telmisany, Hassan El-Télmissany, Idabel, Hassia, Fouad Kamel, Wadid Sirry, Lee Miller, and others. Surrealism and Photography in Egypt Maria Golia W hile researching a book about photography in Egypt and trying...

... publishes Al Kitab Al Manbuz (The Forsaken/Castaway Book). 1937 Georges Henein introduces surrealism at a conference in Cairo and a year later founds the Art and Liberty group with Ramses Younan, Kamel Telmisany, Angelo de Riz, Emile Simon, and Edmond Jabès, among others. 1938 Georges Henein publishes...

... available to those affiliated with the School of Fine Arts and the salons of art. This effort is observed in an earlier manifesto published by the Neo-Orientalists Gama at al Fananin al Sharqiyin al Gudud (Neo-Orientalist Art group), a group formed by Kamel Telmisany in January 1937 that worked to liberate...

... ( The Pioneers: Ramsès Younan, Fouad Kamel and Kamel Telmisany These articles and studies were incorporated into my book Al-Sirialiyya fi Misr (Surrealism in Egypt), the first edition of which came out two years later in mid-1986. It was published with black-and-white images in a modest print cover-wise...

... novelty.2 While the break was final, it never altered Henein s initial admiration for the mastermind of surrealism, nor did it lead him to deny that Breton had extraordinary power in formulating his Kamel Telmisany, Untitled, 1939. Portrait of Georges Henein. Courtesy Museum of Modern Egyptian Art, Cairo...

... in reality. The crawling of great darkness upon earth, where the apparatus is, according to the poetic code, the tool that very Copy of a page from Déraisons d être (La Musabibate Al Wujud | Unreasons/ Nonreasons for Being) by Georges Henein and Kamel Telmisany, 1938, with dedication by the two authors...

... in the first major exhibition to examine this pivotal movement. Primary among them was the Art and Liberty group (Jama at al-Fann Wa al-Hurriyyah), under the leadership of intellectuals, artists, and writers such as Georges Henein, Ramses Younan, Fouad Kamel, Anwar Kamel, Edmond Jabès, and Kamel Telmisany...

...: Journal of Comparative Poetics 20 (2000): 2 28. Translated with permission Kamel Telmisany, Untitled, 1938. Mixed media on paper showing the face of Albert Cossery, 47 x 36 cm. Courtesy Samir Gharib private collection Al-Kharrat Nka 133 Albert Cossery Sixty-one years ago, in the year 1940, I discovered...