Art from Lebanon – Modern and contemporary artists 1880 – 1975

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LebanonPostcard presents the Book: “Art from Lebanon – Modern and contemporary artists 1880 – 1975 – Volume 1” Nour Salamé Abillama, Marie Tomb – Foreword by Amin Maalouf

Art from Lebanon – Volume 1
Hardcover: 30 x 24.5 x 4 cm, 3200 grs, 433 pages

Table of Contents

Foreword – Amin Maalouf
Before we begin
Introduction – The wide gap – Joseph Tarrab
Art in Lebanon – A Historical Overview – César Nammour

Forerunners
From Classicism to the Splendor of Nature – Dr Maha Azizé Sultan – Daoud Corm, Habib Serour, Khalil Saleeby, Philippe Mourani, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, Youssef Hoyek

Figurative Experiments
Bibi Zogbé – Georges Daoud Corm – Omar Onsi – Marie Hadad – César Gemayel – Moustafa Farroukh

Multiple Modernities
Abstract Art and Modern Tendencies – 1950 – 1975 Dr. Faycal Sultan
Saliba Douaihy, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Rachid Wehbi, Aref El Rayess, Paul Guiragossian, Elie Kanaan, Michel Basbous, Farid Aouad, Helen Khal, Etel Adnan, Jean Khalifé, Said Akl, Shafic Abboud, Halim Jurdak, Yvette Achkar, Khalil Zgaib, Guvder, Alfred Basbous, Joseph Basbous, Adel Saghir, Laure Ghorayeb, Amine El Bacha, Rafic Charaf, Zaven Hadichian, Wajih Nahlé, Mounir Najem, Juliana Seraphim, Ibrahim Marzouk, Moussa Tiba, Odile Mazzloum, Mouazzaz Rawda

Creative Deconstructions
Close Encounters with Lebanese Art: Memories, Family and other stories – Grégory Buchakjian
Hugette Caland, Nadia Saikali, Hussein Madi, Fadi Barrage, Hassan Jouni, Chaouki Chamoun, Assadour, Krikor Norikian, Seta Manoukian, Farid Haddad, Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui, Hrair, Jamil Molaeb, Nabil Nahas, Samir Khaddje, Chaouki Choukini, Faycal Sultan, Paul Wakim, Mohammad El Rawas

From Abroad, yet so Lebanese… – Marie Tomb
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Selected Bibliography
Credits and Copyrights
Acknowledgments

Nour Salamé Abillama
Nour started her career as a consultant offering strategy and management advice in Paris, then settles in Lebanon in 2003 where she works in the fields of marketing and management for several international companies. in 2006, she joins her mother, Nada Salamé, as a general manager of her publishing house, and publishes Dream Homes of Lebanon then Dream Homes of Lebanon and beyond, thus introducing an additional book category specialized in Art and Design in addition to the weddings and table settings books initiated by her mother. Nour represents a Lebanese generation born during the war, and for whom Lebanese identity was a progressive discovery. Passionate about art, she decides to discover and pave the way for others to discover artists born in Lebanon through this book, which is an homage to Lebanese artists often unknown to the greater public. She fell in love with Lebanese art, and was adamant on sharing through this publication.

Marie Tomb
Marie is an art historian, educated at Yale University in the United States and the Courtauld institute of Art in London. In 2008, she returned to Lebanon to pass on her passion for art to Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts and Saint Joseph University students. Meanwhile, she takes part in the organization of contemporary art exhibitions in Beirut, often editing and contributing to their exhibition catalogues, in addition to expressing herself through various publications. Art from Lebanon gave her the opportunity to marry art and Lebanon, the two things she’s most passionate about, which she’s afraid she’ll never be able to fully grasp. This book, to her, represents a true journey through space and time, an adventure she took the liberty of telling in her own way.