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Cosmopolitan radicalism : the visual politics of Beirut's global sixties

معاصري، زينة author

2020

Overview

\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Art and society Lebanon Beirut / Modernism (Art) Lebanon Beirut / Cosmopolitanism Lebanon Beirut / Design Lebanon Beirut / Visual communication Political aspects Lebanon Beirut / Beirut (Lebanon) Civilization 20th century
• ISBN: 9781108487719, 9781108720830

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N 72 .S6 M33 2020	1	BOOK	ARTS