Skira

Skira - Arabic hurufiya - dr. charbel dagher | charbel dagher

• 4 stele, bazat pe 1 voturi

• Arab Hurufiya: Art and Identity is a book
• Which recollects the history of a modern art movement in the Arab world
• Called Hurufiya
• Re-inventing calligraphy
• And focusing on the formal elements of the Arabic letter
• It is one of the most significant art movements that took place in the Arab world beginning in the 14th century
• And peaking again in mid-twentieth century
• This movement fuses the traditional and the contemporary
• The letter and the sign
• In a way that the letter is perceived as an artistic form and does not require to be read or decrypted