Spotlighting the Body in a Nascent Arab Art World
The subject of the painting lies naked on crumpled, white bedding. Her shapely breasts sit high, her ankles crossed. Art aficionados may be imagining Édouard Manet’s celebrated “Olympia,” from 1863, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work in question — “Nude Lying in Front of…
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