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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Book is multi language and includes English. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> From the cafe of Manial-al-Rodah a working class area of Cairo where he found his first inspiration to his consecration in Europe in the fifties Hamed Abdalla “resurrected” millennial Egyptian art handed down from Antiquity to modern times by the sons of the fellahs who assimilated and developed in their daily lives the successive contributions of Copts and Muslims. His entire life was marked by a sacred dimension just as it was by the na?ve figurative “folk art” of the people. His art reached its apogee in the abstract calligraphic improvisations which often evoke an image via the drawing of movement. The pedagogical role of Abdalla as indicated by the Larousse dictionary of painting was to eliminate the picturesque from repre- sentations of physical space and to subordinate the subject to the demands of construction. Hamed Abdalla rejected official art to develop his own style through contact with Egyptian physical reality and over more than fifty years he worked ceaselessly leaving a large number of paintings sketches (MP)