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Paul Guiragossian : Displacing Modernity, Hardback Book

Paul Guiragossian : Displacing Modernity Hardback

Edited by Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath

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Paul Guiragossian (1926-1993) is one of the most influential artists to emerge from the Arab World in the 20th century. Paul Guiragossian (1926-1993) is one of the most influential artists to emerge from the Arab World in the 20th century.

Born to Armenian parents, survivors of the Armenian Genocide, he experienced the consequences of exile, first as a child, and later on as a young refugee from Jerusalem arriving to Beirut in the late 1940s. In the '50s Paul started teaching art in several Armenian schools and worked as an illustrator.

He later started his own business with his brother Antoine painting cinema banners, posters, and drawing illustrations for books.

Soon after he was discovered for his art and introduced to his contemporaries after which he began exhibiting his works in Beirut and eventually all over the world.

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