Beautiful Agitation

Modern Painting and Politics in Syria

Beautiful Agitation
Anneka Lenssen
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Hardback
h254 x 178mm - 296pg
25 Nov 2020 US
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9780520343245
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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.
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ISBN-13: 9780520343245
Published: 25 Nov 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 254mm
Width: 178mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 953g
Pages: 296

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