#british colonialism
"Have you seen the Egyptian Museum? Much of pharaonic art is surrealist," wrote Kamel el Telmissany, an Egyptian surrealist artist closely associated with the Cairo-based Art and Liberty Group, in a 1939 journal entry. As el Telmissany insightfully pointed out, surrealism — an artistic movement that delves into the subconscious, while challenging conventional perceptions of reality — was not “specifically a French movement,” as many art critics often claim. Instead, it goes beyond nationality and religion, embodying a universal movement…
