Cosmopolitan radicalism the visual politics of Beirut's global sixties Maasri, Zeina creator author. text bibliography enk 2020 monographic eng print xxi, 281 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm. "Exploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon's history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Against a celebratory reminiscence of the "golden years", Beirut's long 1960s is conceived of as a liminal juncture, an anxious time and space when the city held out promises at once politically radical and radically cosmopolitan. Zeina Maasri examines the transnational circuits that animated Arab modernist pursuits, shedding light on key cultural transformations that saw Beirut develop as a Mediterranean site of tourism and leisure, a nexus between modern art and pan-Arab publishing and, through the rise of the Palestinian Resistance, a node in revolutionary anti-imperialism. Drawing on uncharted archives of printed media this book expands the scope of historical analysis of the postcolonial Arab East"-- Introduction : Beirut in the Global Sixties : Design, Politics and Translocal Visuality -- Dislocating the Nation : Mediterraneanscapes in Lebanon's Tourist Promotion -- The Hot Third World in the Cultural Cold War : Modernism, Arabic Literary Journals and US Counterinsurgency -- The Visual Economy of 'Precious Books' : Publishing, Modern Art and the Design of Arabic Books -- Ornament is No Crime : Decolonising the Arabic Page from Cairo to Beirut -- Art is in the 'Arab Street': The Palestinian Revolution and Printscapes of Solidarity -- Draw Me a Gun : Radical Children's Books in the Trenches of 'Arab Hanoi.' Zeina Maasri. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-le--- Art and society Lebanon Beirut Modernism (Art) Lebanon Beirut Cosmopolitanism Lebanon Beirut Design Lebanon Beirut Book design Lebanon Beirut Decolonization in art Visual communication Political aspects Lebanon Beirut Beirut (Lebanon) Civilization 20th century Art and society Book design Civilization Cosmopolitanism Decolonization in art Design Modernism (Art) Visual communication Political aspects Lebanon Beirut 1900-1999 fast N72.S6 M225 2020 701/.03 Cosmopolitan radicalism Maasri, Zeina Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. (DLC) 2019051254 Global Middle East (Cambridge, England) 9781108487719 1108487718 9781108720830 1108720838 9781108767736 9781108863698 (PDF ebook) 2019051253 pda,print DGU/DLC 191108 20250318215151.0 in00004276528 eng