The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan, a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.
Ramses Younan (1913-1966) was an Egyptian painter, intellectual, writer and translator, born in Minieh (Egypt). He is one of the pioneers of modern painting in the Middle East and Africa, having introduced successively surrealism and abstraction.
Edited by Sonia Younan.
Texts by Ramsès Younan,
Louis Awad, Alain Roussillon, Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange, Patrick Kane, Marc Kober, Roland Vogel, Georges Henein, Yves Bonnefoy, Jozéfa Younan, Abdul Kader el-Janabi, Georges Andrews, Victor Musgrave, Sonia Younan, Ahmed Rassim, Jean Moscatelli, Aimé Azar, Édouard Jaguer, Anneka Lenssen, Éric de Laclos, Stephen Spender.
