Modernism and Iraq

by Nada M. Shabout, Zainab Bahrani, Wallach Art Gallery Staff

In the mid twentieth century, artists in the newly independent nation of Iraq experimented with a form of Modernism that they saw as a new and revolutionary artistic idiom for a secular national state. Combining ancient and Islamic forms and genres of art and with Western Modernist influences, these artists set out to create an art for the people. At the same time, they participated in what they saw of Western Modernism by bringing to it older...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884919227
• ISBN13: 9781884919220
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Wallach Art Gallery
• Length: 99 Pages