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Al Fayyum
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Fayyum, Al 

(also Al Fayum, El Faiyum), a city in Egypt, in the Al Fayyum oasis; administrative center of the muhafazah (governorate) of Fayyum. Railroad station. Population, 150,900 (1970). Industries include cotton ginning and milling, wool and leather processing, and the production of tobacco goods. Al Fayyum is the center of an agricultural region producing cotton, grains, and legumes.
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Lees's heads--those of his wife, Ruth, say, or of a Dick Tracy-like private eye, or of Porky Pig--are spiritually closer, in their static formality, to the Faiyum portrait or Byzantine icon than to the representational traditions of Florentine disegno.
John Lees: Betty Cuningham Gallery by Pincus-Witten, Robert / Artforum International
This is a personal story, an autobiography which tattoos Van Gogh with the artist's Auschwitz number, and deconstructs conventions of the self in Western art from Faiyum to Andy Warhol.
In the shadow of history: second generation writers and artists and ... by Sicher, Efraim / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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