Description
Challenging typical views of modernism in art history as solely Euro-American, and expanding the conventional periodization of Islamic art history, Seggerman theorizes a "constellational modernism" for the emerging field of global modernism. Rather than seeing modernism in a generalized, hyperconnected network, she finds that art and artists circulated in distinct constellations that encompassed finite local and transnational relations. Such constellations, which could engage visual systems both along and beyond the Nile, from Los Angeles to Delhi, were materialized in visual culture that ranged from oil paintings and sculpture to photography and prints. Based on extensive research in Egypt, Europe, and the United States, this richly illustrated book poses a compelling argument for the importance of Muslim networks to global modernism.
About the Author
Alex Dika Seggerman is assistant professor of Islamic art history at Rutgers University-Newark.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469653044
Author Alex Dika Seggerman
Format Hardback
Page Count 296
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press