History Regained: A Modern Artist in Baghdad Encounters a Lost Tradition of Painting

This essay explores how the re-encounter with a medieval history of manuscript illustration laid a foundation for the practice of modern art in Iraq. It focuses on the artist Jewad Selim (1919-61) and his discovery of Yahya al-Wasiti's illustrations of the Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī, but it also marks t...

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Main Author: Al-Bahloly, Saleem (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2018]
In: Muqarnas
Year: 2018, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 229-272
Further subjects:B Eustache de Lorey
B global modernism
B Baghdad Group for Modern Art
B Baghdad School
B Iraq
B Jewad Selim
B Yahya al-Wasiti
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