Art and the Arab Spring

Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and Beyond

AvSiobhan Shilton

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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The revolutions that began to sweep across countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 - like other revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts - have often been articulated, internally and externally, in black and white terms of success or failure, liberation or constraint, for or against, friend or enemy. These internal and external clichés are perpetuated by what Jellel Gasteli has called 'icons of revolutionary exoticism'. Paying particular attention to works from the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, this book examines a diverse body of art including photography, sculpture, graffiti, performance, video and installation by over twenty-five artists. Examining how art can evoke the idea of revolution, Art and the Arab Spring reveals a new way of understanding these revolutions, their profound cultural impact, and of the meaning of the term 'revolution' itself.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-20
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:384 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:The Global Middle East
Antal sidor:261
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108829366

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Siobhán Shilton is Reader in French Studies and the Visual Arts at the University of Bristol. She has published books and articles on art and the 'Arab Uprisings', cultural encounters in photography, video, graffiti, graphic novels, installation and performance art, and twentieth-century travel literature in French, including Transcultural Encounters: Gender and Genre in Franco-Maghrebi Art (2013). Her research has been supported by grant awards from the AHRC.

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'Shilton maps the post revolutionary artistic outpouring in Tunisia while making eclectic forays into the art scene in Egypt, Libya and Syria. This is a fine contribution to the burgeoning study of art and the aesthetics of revolt in Tunisia and the Arab world writ large.' Nouri Gana, University of California

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Introduction. Exceeding Icons of Revolution in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean; 1. Aesthetics of Revolution and Infra-thin Critique; 2. Contingency and Resistance: Exceeding Icons through Matter and Motion; 3. Contingent Encounters: Artists, Artisans and Amateurs; 4. Corporeal Resistance and Aesthetics of the Interface; Conclusion. Art and Revolution: Aesthetics and Approaches.