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From Istanbul to Cairo: Stories of Modern Art
The Age of Revolutions22 min
Available until 15/09/2028
In Cairo, Beirut and Baghdad in the 1940s, artists were questioning what modern art should be. Cubism or surrealism? Or Sumerian art, Pharaonic art, or miniatures from the Abbasid period? Could the road to modernity perhaps really a journey into the past?
Director
Ilana Navaro
Author
Ilana Navaro
Karim Miske
Production
KEPLER22 PRODUCTIONS
Country
France
Year
2025
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