Art contemporain arabe. Textes sur images (bilingual French/Arabic) (French Edition)

Located at the crossroads of a civilization of signs and a civilization of the image, Arabic contemporary art contains the unquestionable traces of a transitional period. But how have today's Arabic artists oriented their quest to reintegrate the multiple sources they have inherited from the past, juxtaposing them with the many forms of modernity? How have these artists interpreted their influences from Western painters of this century? Especially those who discovered the Arabic world with wonder and created works influenced by its earth and its light, such as Paul Klee or Henri Matisse? How has the work of these painters helped to renew that of today's Arabic artists?