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Beautiful agitation : modern painting and politics in Syria /

Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria is a study of radical painting practices in the contested territory of Syria, 1900 to 1965 (the decades prior to the Ba'th Party's stranglehold on the country). Taking artists Kahlil Gibran, Adham Ismail and Fateh al-Moudarres as p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lenssen, Anneka (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2020].
Subjects:
Gibran, Kahlil, > 1883-1931.
Ismāʻīl, Adʹham, > 1922-1963.
Mudarris, Fātiḥ.
Painting, Syrian > 20th century.
Art > Political aspects > Syria.
Painting, Modern > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Art)
Art and globalization > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Arab Romantics : Kahlil Gibran and the awakening storm
  • Colonial Syria : finding life within culture
  • Popular politics : Adham Ismail and the aesthetics of revival
  • National excavation : Fateh al-Moudarres and the unholy image
  • Conclusion.