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Modern art in Cold War Beirut : drawing alliances

Rogers, Sarah A. (Art historian), author

2021

Overview

\"Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of the 1950s and 60s. Positing the Cold War as a globalized conflict, fraught with different political ideologies and intercultural exchanges, this study asks how these historical circumstances shaped local debates in Beirut over artistic pedagogy, the social role of the artist, the aesthetics of form, and, ultimately, the development of a national art. Drawing on a range of archival material and taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines Art History, Middle Eastern, and Cold War studies, Sarah Rogers argues that the genealogies of modern art can never be understood as isolated, national histories, but rather that they participate in an ever contingent global modernism. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, contemporary art, and Middle East studies\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: 1900-1999 / Modernism (Art) Lebanon Beirut. / Art Political aspects Lebanon Beirut History 20th century. / Art and society Lebanon Beirut History 20th century. / Art and society. / Art Political aspects. / Modernism (Art) / Lebanon Beirut.
• ISBN: 9780367175436, 0367175436, 9781032013428, 1032013427

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N7276.7.B45 R64 2021	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE