Islam & Modernism in Egyptian Art | Alex Dika Seggerman
In this conversation, we are discussing Dr. Seggerman's book "Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt Between the Islamic and the Contemporary."
Alex Dika Seggerman is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History at Rutgers University - Newark. Dr. Seggerman received her Ph.D. from Yale University in the History of Art in 2014. She held postdoctoral fellowships at Smith College, Hampshire College, and Yale University prior to joining the Rutgers-Newark faculty in 2018. Dr. Seggerman’s scholarship investigates the intersection of Islam and modernism in art history. Her first book, Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary, traces the arc of Egyptian modernism in art, arguing that artists confronted and visualized the transnational context of their circulation.
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