Ahmed Morsi : a dialogic imagination / Ahmad Mursi ; Hoor Al Qasimi and Salah M. Hassan.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Hoor Al Qasimi -- Ahmed Morsi : a dialogic imagination / Salah M. Hassan -- Section I : Experimentation in diverse media -- Writing -- Galerie 68 -- The artist's book -- Printmaking -- Stage sets -- Photography -- 'A touch of solitude and spirituality' : the exilic worlds of Ahmed Morsi / Dina Ramadan -- The artist Ahmed Morsi : a visual poet / Edwar al-Kharrat -- Section II : Between poetry and painting -- Self-portraits across time -- Portraits -- Cityscapes -- Women and music -- Marathi al-Bahr al-Abyad -- Iraq war -- Time, memory, and surrealism -- Humans, animals, and natural forms -- Coupling, doubling, and mirroring -- Ahmed Morsi : a poet and a painter of poetry / Samir Gharib -- A conversation with Ahmed Morsi / Salah M. Hassan -- Section III : Artist chronicle and bibliography -- Artist chronicle -- Exhibition history -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Credits -- Acknowledgements.

After coming of age in the 1940s as part of the Alexandria School, a movement led by free thinkers and artists that marked the city's emergence as a postwar Mediterranean cultural entrepot, Ahmed Morsi spent time in Baghdad before moving to Cairo in the 1960s and eventually immigrating to New York in the 1970s. A painter, poet, printmaker, and critic, Morsi has created a diverse body of work abundant in mythic beauty. The Cairo journal he helped lead in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Galerie 68, became the voice of the Egyptian avant-garde, and he has also experimented with theatrical set design and artist's books. This volume highlights the rich interplay between Morsi's poetry and paintings and emphasises the way his multivalent practice conducts a dialogue with the wider world. Newly commissioned scholarly essays, commentaries from his contemporaries, selections from the artist's own writings, an interview with the artist, and numerous photographs and reproductions capture the vibrancy and impact of Morsi's prolific career. Also included are an extensive exhibition history, bibliography, and career chronicle.