Edited by Salah Hassan
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Sudanese 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 Prison Notebook. an intensely personal work that is both a major historical document and a masterpiece of drawing.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.?
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This bilingual English-Arabic volume. published by The Museum of Modern Art and the Sharjah Art Foundation. comprises a facsimile of the Prison Notebook (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.
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