Arabic Hurufiyya :
Dāghir, Sharbal
Arabic Hurufiyya : Art and Identity / by Charbel Dagher ; translated from Arabic by Samir Mahmoud. - 1st ed. - Milano, Italy : Skira, 2016. - 142 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Arabic calligraphy : an inspiring element in abstract art / Madiha Omar -- The one dimension / Shakir Hassan Al Said -- Arab-Islamic calligraphy in my body of work / Hossein Zenderoudi.
The history of a modern art movement in the Arab world called Hurufiyya. Reinventing calligraphy and focusing on the formal elements of the Arabic letter, it is one of the most significant art movements that took place in the Arab world beginning in the fourteenth century and peaked again in the mid-twentieth century. This movement fuses the traditional and the contemporary, the letter and the sign, in a way that the letter is perceived as an artistic form and does not require to be read or decrypted. Written by Dr. Charbel Dagher in 1990, this is the first time that these texts are published in English with new images and updated text.
Translated from the Arabic and revised in English.
8857231518 8857234223 9788857231518 9788857234229
Calligraphy, Arabic--History--20th century.
Painting, Arab--20th century.
NK3633.A2 / D3413 2016
Arabic Hurufiyya : Art and Identity / by Charbel Dagher ; translated from Arabic by Samir Mahmoud. - 1st ed. - Milano, Italy : Skira, 2016. - 142 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Arabic calligraphy : an inspiring element in abstract art / Madiha Omar -- The one dimension / Shakir Hassan Al Said -- Arab-Islamic calligraphy in my body of work / Hossein Zenderoudi.
The history of a modern art movement in the Arab world called Hurufiyya. Reinventing calligraphy and focusing on the formal elements of the Arabic letter, it is one of the most significant art movements that took place in the Arab world beginning in the fourteenth century and peaked again in the mid-twentieth century. This movement fuses the traditional and the contemporary, the letter and the sign, in a way that the letter is perceived as an artistic form and does not require to be read or decrypted. Written by Dr. Charbel Dagher in 1990, this is the first time that these texts are published in English with new images and updated text.
Translated from the Arabic and revised in English.
8857231518 8857234223 9788857231518 9788857234229
Calligraphy, Arabic--History--20th century.
Painting, Arab--20th century.
NK3633.A2 / D3413 2016