Kol el-Ayam A’yad, Thalathat Aswat fi Arba’in Machhad.

DESCRIPTION

208pp. Hardcover, copy new in mint condition. Born in 1927 in Ain El Sindianeh, North Lebanon, Halim Jurdak began his artistic training at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Art in 1953. He is the first Lebanese artist to work in the medium of etching and engraving on an equal footing with painting and drawing. His work has won many prizes, including the first prize for Engraving at the Annual Exhibition of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He has participated in numerous international and regional exhibitions and began teaching at the Institute of Fine Arts of the Lebanese University in Beirut in 1966. Jurdak has written numerous artistic and literary articles and has published several books, including The Metamorphosis of Line and Color (dealing with the psychic and mental motives underlying contemporary and modern plastic-artistic movements), and The Eye of Contentment (consisting of contemplations and meditations on art).