THE ABSTRACTION OF ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY IN THE MAKING OF MODERN SUDANESE ART

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https://doi.org/10.5965/2175234611242019059

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modern sudanese art, arabic calligraphy, Khartoum school, El Salahi, Hurufiyya

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the use of Arabic calligraphy by pioneering art-ists of modern painting in Sudan in the 1950s and 1960s and its relationship to the country’s modernization process. The central role assigned to calligraphy in the curriculum of the Khartoum School, one of the main artistic movements on the African continent in the post-colonial period, will be problematized. The criti-cal debate led by Sudanese artists Has-san Musa and Abdallah Bashir (Bola) in the early 1970s, who saw the abstraction of Arabic calligraphy as a mechanism of essentialization of Sudanese art and cul-ture, will also be examined.

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Sandra Mara Salles, Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Doutoranda em História da Arte na Universidade Estadual de Campinas, na Linha de pesquisa Questões de arte não europeia. Realizou estágio de pesquisa no Departamento de História da Arte da Universidade de Chicago, financiada pela bolsa Connecting Art Histories da Getty Foundation. Possui graduação em História pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, especialização em Estudos Latino-Americanos (Formação Multidisciplinar em História, Sociologia, Economia, Geografia e Mídia ) na Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III e mestrado em Antropologia Social e Etnologia na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Atuou profissionalmente no Museu Afro Brasil, em São Paulo, de 2010 a 2018, como Coordenadora de Difusão e Projetos, trabalhando junto à Diretoria Curatorial no planejamento e realização de projetos de exposições e outras atividades culturais e educativas. Integrou igualmente a equipe de coordenação do Núcleo de Educação da mesma instituição. Tem se dedicado à pesquisa em História da Arte, com ênfase em arte africana, modernismos, arte contemporânea e história das exposições.

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2019-06-06

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SALLES, Sandra Mara. THE ABSTRACTION OF ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY IN THE MAKING OF MODERN SUDANESE ART. Palíndromo, Florianópolis, v. 11, n. 24, p. 59–72, 2019. DOI: 10.5965/2175234611242019059. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/palindromo/article/view/15208. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.

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