Resonances – 82 Lebanese Artists

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LebanonPostcard presents the book [Resonances] 82 Lebanese Artists Reviewed by Helen Khal – Edited by Cesar Nammour and Gabriela Schaub – Hardcover book with paper cover, 31.5×23.5 cm, 353 pages

Helen Khal, recognized as one of Lebanon’s leading artists and art critics, studied painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and at the Art Students League in New York, A Lebanese-American whose parents originated in Tripoli, she lived, painted, and exhibited in Lebanon for most of her life, In 1963 she established Gallery One, the first permanent art gallery in Lebanon.

Starting in 1966, she wrote more than a thousand articles on contemporary art in Lebanon and the Arab world for publication in newspapers, principally The Daily Star, and magazines in Lebanon and abroad. In 1975 she made a 22-university tour across the United States, lecturing on Arab art.

Known also as an educator, she taught painting at the American University of Beirut and at the Lebanese American University. In 1976 she wrote The Woman Artist in Lebanon – the first book to address the subject of Arab women artists – which was published in 1987 by the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University.

She lived for her art, but has never lived from her art. Consequently, she always earned her living as a professional writer and editor.

She had two sons, Tarik and Jawad, from her 16-year marriage to the well-known Lebanese poet, Yusuf Al Khal, which ended in divorce in 1963.

Helen Khal died May 20, 2009.

A collection of eighty-six articles written by the artist and art critic Helen Khal which appeared in The Daily Star newspaper between 1967 and 2001.
A reference book on Lebanese art, in 352 pages, including eighty-two biographies and more than 400 reproductions of art works.

Gabriela S. Schaub was born in Gengenbach, a picturesque town in the Black Forest, in southern Germany. Her interest in languages and her love for travel tempted her to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her posts abroad led her from East Africa to Switzerland, France, Greece, Italy, Austria, and finally to Lebanon in 2003. In Beirut, where she felt immediately at home, she resigned in 2010 and joined Cesar Nammour in publishing books on Lebanese art, and working in editing and photography. They established together the yearly Beirut Art Book Fair in 2009, and Recto-Verso, a reference library and art bookshop in 2010 in Monot Street where they hold a book street market. Much time is also dedicated to the revival of Alita, a town development project overlooking the picturesque Adonis valley.

Cesar Nammour, art historian and publisher, has followed the plastic arts in Lebanon closely since 1959. He received his BBA at the American University of Beirut in 1961 and his MBA in 1964 at the American University in Washington, DC. For five years he was associated with the Contact Art Gallery in Beirut, which he cofounded in 1972.He cofounded Gallery Les Cimaises in Zouk-Mosbeh in 1987, and Art et Culture in Zouk-Mosbeh in 1993. A frequent lecturer on Lebanese sculpture and painting, he has published more than one hundred articles in Lebanese newspapers and twenty books on art. He cofounded the Contemporary Art Society in 1997 and the Lebanese Association of Art Critics in 1998. In his hometown, Rabieh, he organized many cultural activities in the town club when he headed the town’s administration for more than twelve years. He has also taught art appreciation and the history of art in many institutions in Lebanon.

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