Beautiful Agitation

Modern Painting and Politics in Syria

Anneka Lenssen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34324-5 (ISBN)

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In modern Syria, a contested territory at the intersection of differing regimes of political representation, artists ventured to develop strikingly new kinds of painting to link their images to life forces and agitated energies. Examining the works of artists Kahlil Gibran, Adham Ismail, and Fateh al-Moudarres, Beautiful Agitation explores how painters in Syria activated the mutability of form to rethink relationships of figure to ground, outward appearance to inner presence, and self to world. Drawing on archival materials in Syria and beyond, Anneka Lenssen reveals new trajectories of painterly practice in a twentieth century defined by shifting media technologies, moving populations, and the imposition of violently enforced nation-state borders. The result is a study of Arab modernism that foregrounds rather than occludes efforts to agitate against imposed identities and intersubjective relations.

Anneka Lenssen is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Acknowledgments
Notes on the Text

Introduction
1. Arab Romantics: Kahlil Gibran and the Awakening Storm
2. Colonial Syria: Finding Life within Culture
3. Popular Politics: Adham Ismail and the Aesthetics of Revival
4. National Excavation: Fateh al-Moudarres and the Unholy Image
Conclusion

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Illustrations
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2020
Zusatzinfo	57 color and 44 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	953 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	0-520-34324-7 / 0520343247
ISBN-13	978-0-520-34324-5 / 9780520343245
Zustand	Neuware