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Arabic Hurufiyya : Art and Identity / by Charbel Dagher ; translated from Arabic by Samir Mahmoud.

By: Dāghir, SharbalContributor(s): Mahmoud, Samir [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publication details: Milano, Italy : Skira, 2016. Edition: 1st edDescription: 142 p. : ill. (chiefly color) ; 29 cmISBN: 8857231518; 8857234223; 9788857231518; 9788857234229Uniform titles: Ḥurūfīyah al-ʻArabīyah. English Subject(s): Calligraphy, Arabic -- History -- 20th century | Painting, Arab -- 20th centuryLOC classification: NK3633.A2 | D3413 2016
Partial contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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