Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East : The Arab Nude (Paperback)

Introduction: The Arab Nude: A Genre of the Fine Arts as a Tool of Modernization [Octavian Esanu] 1. Necessary Nudes: Hadatha and Mu’asara in the Lives of Modern Lebanese [Kirsten Scheid] 2. Early Representations of Nudity in the Ottoman Press: A Look at Nineteenth-Century Ottoman and Arab Erotic Literature [Hala Auji] 3. Ideal Nudes and Iconic Bodies in the Works of the Egyptian Pioneers [Nadia Radwan] 4. The Nudism of Sheikh Fouad Hobeiche [Hala Bizri] 5. The Feminine Nude as an Expression of Modernism Through the Works of Mahmoud Moukhtar [Elka Correa] 6. Unveiling the Nude and the Crisis of Manhood　 [Nadia Bou Ali] 7. Musallekhah, or the Anti-Nude [Saleem Al-Baholy]