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Slade Lecture Series 2023: Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian artists in the Nasserite State, 1950s-1960s

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History of Art: Slade Lecture Series
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Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu follows the formal and tonal shifts in Gazbia Sirry’s work as it responded to, and was shaped by Nasser’s and post-revolutionary Egypt’s political fortunes.
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu focuses on the work of Gazbia Sirry (1924-2019), to illustrate how leading modernist artists were, in the wake of the 1952 Free Officers Revolution, swayed by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s charisma, putting their art in the service of his brand of Egyptian nationalism and Pan-Arabist ideology. He considers how Sirry responded to Nasser’s increasingly strongman regime and the devastating outcome of 1967 War? Okeke-Agulu follows the formal and tonal shifts in Sirry’s work as it responded to, and was shaped by Nasser’s and post-revolutionary Egypt’s political fortunes.

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Series
History of Art: Slade Lecture Series
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Chika Okeke-Agulu
Keywords
gazbia
sirry
nasser
war
Africa
egypt
art
history
Department: Department of History of Art
Date Added: 18/05/2023
Duration: 00:55:22

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