Becoming/Coming Undone in Interwar Egypt, A Talk by Clare Davies
When:
Thursday, April 27, 2023
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
Where: University Hall, Hagstrum Room, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Spanish and Portuguese
(847) 491-8249
Group: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Category: Academic, Fine Arts, Lectures & Meetings, Multicultural & Diversity, Global & Civic Engagement
Description:
This presentation explores three competing representations of women produced by Pioneer generation artist Mahmoud Moukhtar (1891-1934), Valentine de Saint Point (1875-1953), and member of the Art and Liberty Group, Kamel El Temissany (1915-1972). I argue that these three works position these figures as avatars of an emerging, interstitial social and political agency capable of navigating colonial-era, interwar Egypt.
Clare Davies is an Assoc. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.