Modern Art in Egypt: Making the Old, New by Mostafa El-Razzaz

ISBN: 9789774524339

Publisher: Biblotheca Alexandrina

Date: 2018

Cover: Hardback

Pages: 308

In the course of 5000 years, all cultures have to contend with the arrival of people, whether by conquest or migration, and being converted by them. Instead, the pattern in Egypt has been to absorb these foreign influences. Its artists have appreciated arriving talent, and have even become infatuated with it, taking its lessons. Eventually, they made it their own. Today's Egyptian artists are doing the same.