Entangled Modernisms Workshop in Paris
Entangled Modernisms: Artists, Mobilities and New Historiographies of Art in Paris

Paris, April 28 and 29, 2025
This workshop connects research being done on artists from Asia, Africa and Latin America who worked and studied in Paris between 1945 and 1989. By identifyinghinge figures, nodes of intersection, parallel andtransversal lines of connection, this collaborativeresearch proposes a new analytical model that enablesresearchers to visualize south-south connections inorder to conceptualize metropoles not as points of originor as global training grounds, but as spaces ofintersections and flows that allow us to understand thetranscultural condition of modern art. It will enable us tothink about these exchanges by observingentanglements at three levels: political, pedagogical, andin the studio.
Partners Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) and the SocialSciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
With Courtauld Institute of Art, École du Louvre, Beaux-Arts deParis, Institut Giacometti, Institut national d’histoire del’art, Université de Lorraine.

Paper abstract:
What the archives of the ENSBA do (not) tell us about Lebanon’s art world in Paris
Dr. Nadia von Maltzahn, PI LAWHA, Orient-Institut Beirut
This paper examines what the archives of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) can and cannot tell us about Lebanon’s art world in Paris in the 1950s and 1960s. Paris was one of the main destinations for Lebanon’s young artists after independence. Many started studying at Beirut’s recently opened Académie des Beaux-Arts before heading to France’s capital to continue on their path of becoming professional artists. But what did they actually do in Paris? What can we learn in this respect from the archives of the ENSBA, and what gaps have to be filled by other sources and methodologies? This paper will look at what role Paris played for the first generation of painters from Lebanon after independence from France.
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Nadia von Maltzahn (April 24, 2025). Entangled Modernisms Workshop in Paris. LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad. Retrieved April 16, 2026 from https://lawha.hypotheses.org/2132
