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  1. Ibrahim El-Salahi : a visionary modernist

    El Salahi, Ibrahim, 1930-
    Long Island City, NY : Museum for African Art ; Seattle : distributed by University of Washington Press, c2012.

    The necropolis of Shah-e Zende at Samarkand represents a summit in the art of ceramic wall coverings in the Islamic world. Few studies have focused on the funerary ensemble of the Shah-e Zende and this is the first to describe these monuments in all the details of their decoration and its techniques and motifs, as well as the different types of ceramics used and their composition. Perched on a steep cliff overlooking the ancient city of Samarkand, today the ghost town of Afrasiyab, the necropolis remains largely unknown to art historians and certainly to the general public. In the vast territory of Islam, the Shah-e Zende complex reveals the finest hour of facade-tile ceramics. Nowhere else was such a wide array of techniques of fabrication developed in the space of one century. In the heart of one of these mausolea is a jewel of Islamix ceramics: the cenotaph of the venerated Qutham Ibn Abbas. 0Exhibition: Travelling exhibition, spring 2012 - winter 2014.Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of the most influential figures in Sudanese modern art. Through his extraordinary artwork and remarkable writing and art criticism, he has made foundational contributions to the modernist movements in Africa and the Arab world. In his paintings, drawings, and illustrations, he engages with an array of traditional African, Arab, and Islamic visual sources as well as European art movements. His unique style transcends geographic and cultural boundaries and has inspired artists in Sudan and elsewhere in Africa for generations. El-Salahi's art offers profound possibilities for understanding African and Arab modernisms and repositioning them within the context of a broader, global modernity. This book brings together more than five decades of his work, tracing a personal journey that originates in Sudan and leads to the artist's international schooling, his detention as a political prisoner in his home country, his self-imposed exile in Qatar, and his current life in the United Kingdom. Salah M. Hassan is director of the Africana Studies and Research Center and professor of African and African Diaspora art history at Cornell University. Other contributors include Sarah Adams, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Iftikhar Dadi, Hassan Musam and El-Salahi.

  2. Ibrahim El-Salahi : prison notebook

    El Salahi, Ibrahim, 1930-
    New York : The Museum of Modern Art ; Sharjah, United Arab Emirates : Sharjah Art Foundation, [2018]

  3. Qabḍah min turāb : sīrah dhātīyah

    El Salahi, Ibrahim, 1930-
    al-Ṭabʻah al-ūlá. الطبعة الأولى. - [Khartoum?] : Muntadá Dāl al-Thaqāfī, 2012. [Khartoum?] : منتدى دال الثقافي، 2012.

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