Art Awakening and Modernity in the Middle East

<p>This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by scholars from several disciplines (art history history anthropology). Each chapter provides a distinct perspective on the early days of the fine arts genre of the nude as its author studies a particular aspect through analysis of artworks and historical documents from the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. The volume examines a rich body of reproductions of both primary documents and of works of art made by Lebanese Egyptian Syrian artists or of anonymous book illustrations from the nineteenth century Ottoman erotic literature.</p>