Art from the Mind's Eye : The Story of the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre
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Overview
The story of Ramses Wissa Wassef and the Wissa Wassef Art Center's unique experiment in tapestry weaving
Over the past seventy-five years, the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center in the village of Harrania, near Cairo, has attained world renown through the beauty of its tapestries and the sensitivity of its philosophy. These works, and the other artistic creations of the centre, reveal a beautiful truth: that all of us are born with a potential to be artists, and in the right circumstances, that potential can flourish throughout our lives.
Today, tapestries by the Wissa Wassef weavers grace museums in the Middle East, North America, and Europe, but when the project began in the streets of Old Cairo in the early 1940s, no one could have predicted it would achieve such recognition. At that time its founder Ramses Wissa Wassef was just a young man with an improbable dream. This book tells the story of where that dream came from, how Wissa Wassef realised it, and how it continues to develop three generations later.
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- ISBN-13: 9781739469436
- ISBN-10: 1739469437
- Publisher: Art Publishing Inc.
- Publish Date: April 2027
- Page Count: 320
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