Project « Egypt’s entry into modern-day popular culture »

This project aims to explore the references to Egyptian antiquity in contemporary production, specifically that related to pop culture and folk arts. Ancient Egypt provides fertile ground for artists and makers.

Whether by its representation techniques or iconography, they have been attracted to, fascinated and inspired by Egyptian art for more than 2,000 years. Output from architects, ceramists, painters, sculpturers, jewellers, couturiers, fiction writers, poets, musicians and film references a fantastical, often reinvented, Egypt.

Today, haute couture, video games, cartoons, street art and tattoos offer new forms of expression and potential new approaches to the study of how Egypt has been embraced by popular culture.

Axes de recherche :

Egyptian and Near East Antiquities

Référent :

Arnaud Quertinmont

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