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Lecture: “Islam & Surrealism: Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar’s Postwar Painting in Egypt”

Presented by McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College at McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston MA

Mar 10 2021
Lecture: “Islam & Surrealism: Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar’s Postwar Painting in Egypt”

The McMullen Museum welcomes Rutgers University Professor Alex Dika Seggerman for a virtual presentation sponsored by the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art. In the years after World War II, the Egyptian artist Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar (1925–66) developed a style of oil painting that incorporated Islamic mysticism with surrealist principles. With this practice, Gazzar aimed to make art more accessible to the Egyptian people while also participating in ... view more »

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Free; open to the public; register for this lecture withAlex Dika Seggerman at https://tinyurl.com/yynw3jg6.

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McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College

2101 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02135
(Neighborhood: Allston/Brighton)

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