
Ibrahim El-Salahi: Prison Notebook
Salah Hassan
(Editor)Description
Sudanese artist, writer, critic, 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that followed, he exorcised his experience in the Prison Notebook, an intensely personal work that is both a major historical document and a masterpiece of drawing, its pages filled with remarkable pen-and-ink drawings that demonstrate the artist's graphic mastery.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, captured in a recent interview.
Product Details
Publisher | Moma/Sharjah Art Foundation |
Publish Date | July 24, 2018 |
Pages | 148 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781633450554 |
Dimensions | 11.5 X 7.0 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds |
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