Fahrelnissa Zeid: Painter of Inner Worlds

by Adila Laïdi-Hanieh

Coinciding with a touring Tate exhibition of her work, this book is the first biography of influential abstract painter Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901-91), a pioneer of Turkish art whose rich life spanned the first 90 years of the 20th century. Zeid is best known for her large-scale paintings that combine Islamic, Byzantine, Arab and Persian influences with stylistic elements developed in Europe during the postwar period. Born into a prominent family...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1908970316
• ISBN13: 9781908970312
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Art / Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"