Saloua Raouda Choucair: Modern Arab Design

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Saloua Raouda Choucair: Modern Arab Design

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Exploring a large range of materials, Choucair combined her knowledge in science, Islamic geometry, engineering and poetry to produce many of the design works made over a period of five decades. Despite the many challenges faced by Choucair during her career, she went on making work that was both modern and Arabic. Based on her own Arab heritage, rather than western traditions and forms, she introduced geometric abstract art with a modernist approach. She was fascinated by Sufi geometry and the concept of infinity. She had a particular interest in developing interlocking shapes and building modular forms while exploring, manipulating and combining new materials in developing solutions not only for sculptures and paintings but also for design products. She confronted those who saw her work as too “feminine” or too European, and refused to be categorized as a woman artist, or a Lebanese artist. For her, art and design were universal. Her approach in eliminating the boundaries between art, architecture and design will continue to inspire present and future generations of artists and designers.

Series: Arabic Design Library 7

Colour illustrations

Hardcover

BilingualThis book celebrates Choucair’s remarkable body of work as a significant figure in the history of twentieth-century art and design.: English, Arabic

176 pages

Dimensions: 24 x 17 x 2.5 cm

ISBN: 9789490939175

Publisher: Khatt Books

Published (date) 2019

Country of publication: Amsterdam

Weight: 0.4 kg

This item is eligible for international shipping.

Khatt Books is a specialized publishing house, established in 2010 as a commercial arm of the Khatt Foundation. Khatt Books focuses on topics such as typography, graphic design, architecture, other applied and visual arts from or dealing with the MENA region.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

Saloua Raouda Choucair is a pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East. She is an artist with a multifaceted career who did not only create paintings and sculptures but also helped shape thinking about design processes and production.

Yasmine Nachabe Taan is Associate professor of Design and Design History at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut.

She holds a PhD in Art History and Communications Studies from McGill University. Her research focus is on design writing and research, visual culture and gender representation, design, media, photography and visual cultutre in the Middle Eastand North Africa. She publishes articles on visual culture in a number of international journals. She has illustrated more than twenty children’s books and has participated in a number of residencies in Berlin, Cairo, Beirut and Bratislava. Her artwork has been exhibited in New York, Berlin and Beirut.

Khatt Books is a specialized publishing house, established in 2010 as a commercial arm of the Khatt Foundation. Khatt Books focuses on topics such as typography, graphic design, architecture, other applied and visual arts from or dealing with the MENA region.

Canvas is a bi-monthly magazine distributed across the world and offering the very best in art and culture from the Middle East and beyond. With intelligent in-depth articles on everything from the visual arts to museums, galleries, photography and design, each issue carries an exclusive feature.

Saloua Raouda Choucair is a pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East. She is an artist with a multifaceted career who did not only create paintings and sculptures but also helped shape thinking about design processes and production.

Yasmine Nachabe Taan is Associate professor of Design and Design History at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut.

She holds a PhD in Art History and Communications Studies from McGill University. Her research focus is on design writing and research, visual culture and gender representation, design, media, photography and visual cultutre in the Middle Eastand North Africa. She publishes articles on visual culture in a number of international journals. She has illustrated more than twenty children’s books and has participated in a number of residencies in Berlin, Cairo, Beirut and Bratislava. Her artwork has been exhibited in New York, Berlin and Beirut.

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