The politics of art : dissent and cultural diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan / Hanan Toukan.
"Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanctions, and large-scale economic developments have reshaped the region, this cohort of cultural producers has also found themselves at the center of int...
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Cultural wars and the politics of diplomacy
- "An artist who cannot speak English is no artist"
- The dissonance of dissent : art and artists after 1990
- Intermezzo
- Beirut : the rise and rise of postwar art
- Amman : uneasy lie the arts
- Ramallah : the paintbrush is mightier than the M16