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Ibrahim El-Salahi : prison notebook / edited by Salah M. Hassan.

El Salahi, Ibrahim, 1930- (artist.). Hassan, Salah M., (editor.).

Summary:

"Sudanese artist, writer, critic, and cultural diplomat Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930) is one of the critical figures of African and Arabic modernism. While serving as Sudan's Undersecretary of Culture in 1975, El-Salahi was imprisoned without trial and endured six months of deprivation in the notorious Cooper (now Kober) Prison. During a period of house arrest that followed, he exorcised his experience in the Prison Notebook, an intensely personal work that is both a major historical document and a masterpiece of drawing, its pages filled with remarkable pen-and-ink drawings that demonstrate the artist's graphic mastery. This bilingual English-Arabic volume, published by The Museum of Modern Art and the Sharjah Art Foundation, comprises a facsimile of the Prison Notebook (recently acquired by MoMA); an English translation of its prose; a contextualizing essay by art historian Salah Hassan that addresses the social and political milieu in which it was produced; and contemporary commentary by the artist."--Publisher's description.

Record details

ISBN: 1633450554
ISBN: 9781633450554
Physical Description: 36, 76 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Publisher: New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Ibrahim El-Salahi's Prison Notebook: A Visual Memoir -- Translation of the Prison Notebook & Artist's Commentary -- Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art & Sharjah Art Foundation.
Language Note:	In Arabic and English.