Etel Adnan
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Etel Adnan
By (Author) Sebastien Delot
Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer
Edited by Matthias Mhling
Hirmer Verlag
Hirmer Verlag
5th April 2023
Germany
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
759.13
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 190mm, Height 240mm
580g
Description
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. 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.
Author Bio
Sbastien Delot is the director at LaM (Lille Mtropole Muse d'art moderne) in Lille. Susanne Gaensheimer is the director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf. Matthias Muhling is the director of the Stdtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich.
