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Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920-1960
By Alessandra Amin (Contribution by), Avinoam Shalem (Contribution by), Eveline Fijen (Contribution by), Iona Stewart (Contribution by), Morad Montazami (Contribution by), Saleem Al Bahloly (Contribution by), Sylvie Robinson (Contribution by), Wendy Shaw (Contribution by), Kirsten L. Scheid (Editor), Betti-Sue Hertz (Foreword by), Kirsten L. Scheid (Introduction)
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By Alessandra Amin (Contribution by), Avinoam Shalem (Contribution by), Eveline Fijen (Contribution by), Iona Stewart (Contribution by), Morad Montazami (Contribution by), Saleem Al Bahloly (Contribution by), Sylvie Robinson (Contribution by), Wendy Shaw (Contribution by), Kirsten L. Scheid (Editor), Betti-Sue Hertz (Foreword by), Kirsten L. Scheid (Introduction)
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Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab. Though spoken of as taboo and practically absent from Arab art production, the nude genre was important for early twentieth-century artists who sought to define their societies as post-Ottoman and cosmopolitan. Although recognized as foundational to Western art since Ancient Greece, the role the nude played in carving out an Arab art has been ignored by both natio...