{"product_id":"ibrahim-el-salahi-prison-notebook-paperback","title":"Ibrahim El-Salahi: Prison Notebook - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Salah Hassan\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSudanese artist, writer, critic, and cultural diplomat Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930) is one of the critical figures of African and Arabic modernism. While serving as Sudan’s Undersecretary of Culture in 1975, El-Salahi was imprisoned without trial and endured six months of deprivation in the notorious Cooper (now Kober) Prison. During a period of house arrest that followed, he exorcised his experience in \u003cem\u003ePrison Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e, an intensely personal work that is both a major historical document and a masterpiece of drawing, its pages filled with remarkable pen-and-ink drawings that demonstrate the artist’s graphic mastery. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis bilingual English-Arabic volume, published by The Museum of Modern Art and the Sharjah Art Foundation, comprises a facsimile of the \u003cem\u003ePrison Notebook\u003c\/em\u003e (recently acquired by MoMA); an English translation of its prose; a contextualizing essay by art historian Salah Hassan that addresses the social and political milieu in which it was produced; and contemporary commentary by the artist. 148 pp.; 76 illus.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 700003","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44170110009574,"sku":"900055-900055","price":35.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/7962\/2630\/files\/eab09b89-fda1-4f3b-838f-083e7b4b1cb6_3072.jpg?v=1736806845","url":"https:\/\/store.moma.org\/en-lt\/products\/ibrahim-el-salahi-prison-notebook-paperback","provider":"MoMA Design Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}