Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East

Octavian Esanu is Assistant Professor of Art History at the American University of Beirut.

• 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]

"Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East: The Arab Nude is an important cross-disciplinary contribution to studies of art and intellectual history during the nahda, especially given the continued presumption of the scandalousness of these artworks."--CAA Reviews