Etel Adnan

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For the first time, the Lebanese-American writer and artist Etel Adnan is being honoured with a comprehensive retrospective in Germany. This volume presents her fascinating work from all creative phases and media. Politically, poetically and metaphysically – Adnan’s texts and pictures reflect the lively exchange between the Arab and the Western world.

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Etel Adnan (1925–2021) spent her life between Lebanon, France and California. She has long been famous as a writer; now this volume presents her impressive artistic personality in the combined exploration of her texts, paintings, tapestries and leporellos. Her biography between the cultures and her feminism play a part, as does her relationship to calligraphy and to American and Arab literature. The publication is a tribute to a cosmopolitan artist, to whom painting represented the love of the world.

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Ed. Sébastien Delot, Susanne Gaensheimer, Matthias Mühling for Lenbachhaus and for Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen

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Contributions by E. Adnan, K. Beßen, S. Delot, S. Fattal, G. Prangé, M. Montazami, M. Vietmeier, G. Zapperi

208 pages, 194 illustrations in colour
19 x 24 cm, softcover

HIRMER PREMIUM
Structured paper cover, premium quality art paper stock

ISBN: 978-3-7774-4057-6

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20th century, 21st century, contemporary painting, painting, contemporary art

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