Hiwar: Sense & Intuition: Fateh Moudaress in Conversation with Adonis
Hiwar: Sense & Intuition: Fateh Moudaress in Conversation with Adonis
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Hiwar: Sense & Intuition: Fateh Moudaress in Conversation with Adonis
W038994 | $45.00 / 10% library disc.
Mouna Atassi. Kaph Books, Beirut, 2022.
180 pp. 30 col., 7 b&w. ills. 26 x 20 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9786148035395
An extraordinary dialogue between two titans of Arabic culture. In 1998, the Syrian curator, gallerist and publisher Mouna Atassi brought together the acclaimed Syrian artist Fateh Moudaress (1922–99) and the great Arab poet Adonis (born 1930) for a public conversation that took place across four days at Atassi’s gallery in Damascus. Moudaress was famous for boldly hued paintings that merge Islamic, Sumerian, Assyrian and Christian visual traditions in a uniquely modern synthesis. Similarly, Adonis—one of the most influential figures in modern Arabic poetry—has rebelled against the tropes of traditional Arabic poetry to experiment with free verse, variable meter and prose poetry; he is responsible for a colossal poetic revolution in Arabic literature. This extraordinary encounter between two giant figures in Arabic culture is translated from Arabic to English for the first time in this volume, which also reproduces 30 previously unseen paintings and drawings by Moudaress.
Subject Headings: Near and Middle East (Western Style) ; Non-Western in a Western Style ; Western Art -- Syria -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 -- Drawings and Watercolors ; Painting --
W038994 | $45.00 / 10% library disc.
Mouna Atassi. Kaph Books, Beirut, 2022.
180 pp. 30 col., 7 b&w. ills. 26 x 20 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9786148035395
An extraordinary dialogue between two titans of Arabic culture. In 1998, the Syrian curator, gallerist and publisher Mouna Atassi brought together the acclaimed Syrian artist Fateh Moudaress (1922–99) and the great Arab poet Adonis (born 1930) for a public conversation that took place across four days at Atassi’s gallery in Damascus. Moudaress was famous for boldly hued paintings that merge Islamic, Sumerian, Assyrian and Christian visual traditions in a uniquely modern synthesis. Similarly, Adonis—one of the most influential figures in modern Arabic poetry—has rebelled against the tropes of traditional Arabic poetry to experiment with free verse, variable meter and prose poetry; he is responsible for a colossal poetic revolution in Arabic literature. This extraordinary encounter between two giant figures in Arabic culture is translated from Arabic to English for the first time in this volume, which also reproduces 30 previously unseen paintings and drawings by Moudaress.
Subject Headings: Near and Middle East (Western Style) ; Non-Western in a Western Style ; Western Art -- Syria -- Post-1945 ; Post-1970 -- Drawings and Watercolors ; Painting --
