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...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...

... as much by cosmic as by material forces. As Marc Kober puts it, the Egyptian pantheon is characterised by permanent creation the power of metamorphosis and that of the imagination are two of surrealism s cardinal values. 17 Kober reminds us that in the Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme, metamorphosis...

... 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...

... of surrealism produced clear and essential modernist trends that have become characteristic of these arts. Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Georges Henein Egyptian surrealism Les Essayistes Un Effort Deraisons d’etre GEORGES HENEIN A Model for Egyptian Surrealism Bachir El Sibaei...

...Gerard Aching In response to demands from French Communist Party officials for surrealists to define the nature of their relationship to communism, André Breton published Legitimate Defense (1926), a pamphlet in which he described surrealism’s ideological and political stance and identified some...

...Salah M. Hassan Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 KAMAL YOUSSEF Egyptian Surrealism s Time Capsule A Tribute Salah M. Hassan T his essay is a tribute to the late Egyptian American artist Kamal Youssef, who lived and worked since the late 1950s in Dayton, a small town in rural...

...Malek Khouri In its origins, surrealism transpired as a radical subversive culture within advanced capitalist societies in Europe during the first few decades of the twentieth century. In colonial and postcolonial societies, however, surrealism variously assumed a quintessence of a protracted...

...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...

..., see Yvan Goll, Manifeste du surréalisme, Surréalisme 1, no. 1 (1924), n.p.; and Breton, Manifeste du surréalisme (Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, 1924). For an overview of all surrealist manifestos in English, see Breton Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Henen R. Lane (Ann Arbor...

...Avinoam Shalem This article discusses a painting of the Great Dam of Aswan made by Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar in 1964 and immediately crowned as the iconic image of Egypt in the heroic age of the Nasser regime. The painting clearly adopts the aesthetic language of surrealism, illustrating a particular...

... Mashiangwako, Thami Mnyele, and Lefifi Tladi—personified black consciousness (BC) and cited its importance to their art making, historians still largely translate their work through the comfort of surrealism’s familiar frame. This article focuses on the professional lives of four men who were pointedly...

... In another essay titled 1943: Le Surréalisme et nous, Suzanne Césaire stated that the whole world was under the influence of surrealism, which had enabled French poetry to survive at a time when the country was overtaken by the most horrible disaster in its history. Because of Breton s divine voice...

... The notion of humanitarisme meurtrier ( murderous humanitarianism ) was initially coined by the French surrealist René Crevel in a 1932 text condemning colonialism, a text that was endorsed by André Breton, among other members of the French surrealist group. See Surréalisme, hisour.com/fr/surrealism...

... surrealists lay squarely in their theoretical underpinning that emphasized non-Western modernism, not as derivative or secondary to the Western modernism, but as a unique experiment in modernity that is worthy of its own investigation. Copyright © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Egyptian surrealism...

... sources give different dates; Bachir El Sibaei states 1928. André Breton publishes The First Manifesto of Surrealism. André Breton publishes Soluble Fish. 1925 André Breton publishes A Letter to Seers. Abdel Hadi El-Gazzar is born in Alexandria. 1928 Mahmud Mukhtar s sculpture Nahdat Misr (The Renaissance...

..., Hawla al-fann al-Manhut (On Degenerate Art), Al-Risala (1939): 1701n321, as quoted in Don LaCoss, Egyptian Surrealism, 98. 18 Telmisany, quoted in LaCoss, Egyptian Surrealism, 99. 19 Georges Henein, Bilan du Surréalisme, Revue des Conférences françaises en Orient, (Le Caire, Octobre 1937...

... of the exhibition was expanded from the Cairo presentation to include a new section on Photography and Egyptian Surrealism. In addition, two major retrospectives, Kamal Youssef: Egyptian Surrealism s Time Capsule (2016) and Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination (2017) were organized by the Sharjah Art Foundation...

... a bodily presence with Love, about the erotic possibilities of surrealism, the “Africa” as an exotic/erotic ideal and experience. Van contemporary writer Peter Dubé states that early in Vechten’s portrait of the dancer in a business suit plays the twentieth century there was a “culture of desire...

..., 2012), 33. My translation. 16 Jacques Ovadia, Surréalisme de l esprit. Ovadia also published Napoléon à la Rose prefere l eau a Van-Leo. Both are in Je dis and are undated. 17 A leaflet found in the library of books collected by VanLeo, titled First Papers of Surrealism: Hanging by André Breton...

... was the brutal realism verging into fantasy, surrealism, and black humor. He revealed with utter honesty what I call the hidden ethnic Cairo. He crafted rare characters from the very bottom of 134 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 49 November 2021 society who have not been discussed in Egyptian...