Anna's Egypt
Anna's Egypt: An Artist's Journey, Anna Boghiguian, Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003. pp135
Anna Boghiguian, one of Egypt's foremost contemporary artists, has traveled the globe and recorded her artistic reaction to each new place in drawings and paintings in the notebooks she carries everywhere. But her roads through India or Cambodia, Canada or France always come back to the land of her birth, Egypt. Her drawings of Egypt reflect her instinctive and emotional responses to the country's many layers of history and myth, and to the people, ancient and modern, grand and everyday, who populate those histories and myths with such entrancing spirit.
In this very personal presentation of Egypt, Anna Boghiguian shares both her visual and her verbal thoughts, as she leads readers on a tour of this land of fact and fiction, across space and in and out of time, through her words that paint pictures and her drawings that tell stories.
Born in Cairo in 1946, Boghiguian has studied art under Fouad Kamel in Egypt and then obtained her BFA in visual arts and music from Concordia University, Montreal. She has held exhibitions in Egypt, Yemen, France, Greece and Canada.
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