“The Taste of sand in the mouth”: 1939 and “Degenerate” Egyptian Art

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1 To be distinguished from Misr al-Fatah in Eqypt today, a liberal democratic party that formed in 1989 of the same name. The original Misr al-Fatah, formed in 1933, was in explicit agreement with Nazi party policies.

2 Parataxis is best defined by example: in his 1869 text Les Chants de Maldoror, Comte de Lautréamont wrote “He is fair … as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella!”

3 Perhaps the logics of pure psychic automatism also allow the individual to escape the fascist biopolitical controls of one's body; control negotiated through dominant modes of fascist media and representation.

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Jeff O’Brien

Jeff O’Brien ([email protected]) is a PhD student in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His current research examines the parafictional art practices of several Lebanese artists working on issues of war and memory. He is co-author of the forthcoming entry on art critic Clement Greenberg for Oxford Bibliographies.