Manazir JournalPub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.36950/MANAZIR.2020.2.6EN
Alain Messaoudi, Simon Strachan
{"title":"On the threshold of the Tunis School","authors":"Alain Messaoudi, Simon Strachan","doi":"10.36950/MANAZIR.2020.2.6EN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36950/MANAZIR.2020.2.6EN","url":null,"abstract":"On the occasion of the inauguration of the first gallery founded by artists in Tunis, the painters Moses Levy, Pierre Boucherle, Antonio Corpora and Jules Lellouche published in 1936 a manifesto affirming their autonomy, beyond mercantile logics and national assignments. However, a national reading of their works prevailed in the press, at that time. This article proposes to put this founding event of the « École de Tunis » into context, by reinscribing it in a century-old history. This past is marked by the presence of French and Italian artists between 1840 and 1880, by the failure of a policy of asserting a French artistic model with an aborted project for a French museum around 1890, and by the affirmation of an artistic life characterised since the 1910s by its pluralism and even its eclecticism. This article thus intends to contribute, through the example of pictorial production, to the historicisation of discourses on the plurality or cultural identity of Tunisia, which are still today objects of debate. ","PeriodicalId":257328,"journal":{"name":"Manazir Journal","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116620170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manazir JournalPub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.36950/manazir.2020.2.4
L. Haddag
{"title":"Sauveur Galliéro et la Génération du Môle :","authors":"L. Haddag","doi":"10.36950/manazir.2020.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2020.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the question of identity issues underpinned in the affirmation of an Algerian painting through the figure of Sauveur Galliéro (1914-1963). As a self-taught artist and leader of the \"Generation of the Môle of Algiers,\" he was a major intercessor between European and indigenous communities. At the heart of artistic, political and social issues, he holds a singular and plural position. The personal archives of the artist and a review of the colonial press allow us to analyze the reception of his work between Paris and Algiers, with the assumption that it bears the seeds of an open “Algerianity”. Free of any colonialist perspective, taking up elements of North African and European traditions, it is indeed anchored in a local and universal topos: the artist's relationship to the sea. ","PeriodicalId":257328,"journal":{"name":"Manazir Journal","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133525070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manazir JournalPub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.4
Nadine Atallah
{"title":"La participation de l’Égypte à la IIème Biennale de São Paulo (1953-1954)","authors":"Nadine Atallah","doi":"10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"This article introduces in detail the genesis of Egypt’s first participation in the São Paulo Biennial (1953-1954). The story begins with a spontaneous application from a Swiss painter settled in Egypt after having lived in Brazil: Irmgard Micaela Burchard Simaika (1908-1964). Her request soon leads to the project of composing an official delegation to represent the country, at a time when Egypt was going through a period of political change, as the republic was proclaimed in June 1953. Within an artistic landscape deprived of specialized administration, the exhibition’s preparation was associated with several debates to establish who had the skills and legitimacy to select the artworks to be sent to São Paulo. The final list of artists reflects the reality of the Egyptian art worlds in the first half of the 1950s, in which academic personalities mix with a new generation keen to produce art which would stand as modern and authentically national, and with members of foreign elites well integrated into local society. This “group of modern Egyptian art painting, in the words of Burchard, includes a third of women and stands out as one of the most gender balanced pavilions in the Biennial. It thus reveals the important contribution of women to the development of modern art in Egypt and its promotion worldwide.","PeriodicalId":257328,"journal":{"name":"Manazir Journal","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114493858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manazir JournalPub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.5
Nadia von Maltzahn
{"title":"The Museum as an Egalitarian Space?","authors":"Nadia von Maltzahn","doi":"10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the role of the Sursock Museum as a platform for the emancipation of women, and to what extent the Museum’s Salon d’Automne constituted an egalitarian space. Etel Adnan took part in two Salons, in 1964 and 1974. This paper will provide some context for the Beirut art scene in which she worked. The general institutional framework for women artists is highlighted before discussing the situation of women artists in Beirut’s Sursock Museum exhibitions of the 1960s and 1970s, the years Etel Adnan participated in the Salon. Brief portraits of four women artists show us that women artists were neither considered alike nor singled out for their gender. They treated very diverse subjects and styles, came from different social backgrounds and generations, and were often pioneers in their fields.","PeriodicalId":257328,"journal":{"name":"Manazir Journal","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130984029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manazir JournalPub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.3
Morad Montazami
{"title":"Hamed Abdalla: Talismanic Modernism","authors":"Morad Montazami","doi":"10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Hamed Abdalla (1917–85) is a key figure in Egyptian modernism and postcolonial art history. His experimental inventions around the Arabic Letter reflected over thirty years of aesthetic debate in the region – often identified as related to the concept of Hurufiyya and its artistic network. Abdalla’s much more political and militant use of the Arabic Letter places him as almost as a unique case. By giving shape to an exiled modernism (Cairo, Copenhagen, Paris, Beirut…) his practice is paradoxically affected by his complex exchange with the West. For instance, with Paul Klee, whom he sees with distance and a critical look but still studies him as a “visual translator” of Oriental(ist) and Egyptian sources.","PeriodicalId":257328,"journal":{"name":"Manazir Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133666427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manazir JournalPub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.6
J. Grandjean, Mirl Redmann
{"title":"Etel Adnan — in Close Encounters with Paul Klee","authors":"J. Grandjean, Mirl Redmann","doi":"10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Review of the symposium \"The Arab Apocalypse. Art, Abstraction & Activism in the Middle East\" (27—28 September 2018) organized by Silvia Naef & Nadia Radwan, and the exhibition \"Etel Adnan\" (15 June—7 October 2018) by Americano-Lebanese artist Etel Adnan, curated by Sébastien Delot & Fabienne Eggelhöfer, both of which took place at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland.","PeriodicalId":257328,"journal":{"name":"Manazir Journal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114728896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manazir JournalPub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.7
Samia A. Halaby
{"title":"The Political Basis of Abstraction in the 20th Century As Explored by a Painter","authors":"Samia A. Halaby","doi":"10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"The political nature of abstraction presented from an artist’s point of view – one who considers the most advanced task is the exploration of the language of pictures. Such exploration is understood as a separate discipline from the many others that employ pictures for practical functions. The author examines the development of 20th century abstraction as an effect of revolutionary social motion. Historic steps to abstraction, taking shape as rising and receding artistic movements, are correlated to revolutionary motion. The materialist underpinning of abstraction is distinguished from the idealism of Post-Modernism. The paper ends with an examination of contemporary discourse in the Western art world that attempts to erase the internationalism of abstraction and, thereby, marginalize non-Western practitioners.","PeriodicalId":257328,"journal":{"name":"Manazir Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121296518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manazir JournalPub Date : 2019-10-01DOI: 10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.2
Silvia Naef
{"title":"\"Painting in Arabic\": Etel Adnan and the Invention of a New Language","authors":"Silvia Naef","doi":"10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36950/manazir.2019.1.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with Etel Adnan’s complex and original relation with the Arabic language, and with her concern for the situation of wars and destruction in the Arab world. It tries to analyze how, by “painting in Arabic,” Adnan not only finds a solution to her linguistic quest, but also gives word to her political commitment to the region. And finally, “painting in Arabic” makes her one of the main representatives of the Hurufiyya movement, a fundamental modernist pictorial trend in the Arab world.","PeriodicalId":257328,"journal":{"name":"Manazir Journal","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115000563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}