Art and the Arab Spring: Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and Beyond: 16 (The Global Middle East, Series Number 16) - Softcover

Shilton, Siobhan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108829368 ISBN 13: 9781108829366

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

The revolutions that began to sweep across countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 – like other revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts – have often been articulated, internally and externally, in black and white terms of success or failure, liberation or constraint, for or against, friend or enemy. These internal and external clichés are perpetuated by what Jellel Gasteli has called 'icons of revolutionary exoticism'. Paying particular attention to works from the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, this book examines a diverse body of art including photography, sculpture, graffiti, performance, video and installation by over twenty-five artists. Examining how art can evoke the idea of revolution, Art and the Arab Spring reveals a new way of understanding these revolutions, their profound cultural impact, and of the meaning of the term 'revolution' itself.

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About the Author

Siobhán Shilton is Reader in French Studies and the Visual Arts at the University of Bristol. She has published books and articles on art and the 'Arab Uprisings', cultural encounters in photography, video, graffiti, graphic novels, installation and performance art, and twentieth-century travel literature in French, including Transcultural Encounters: Gender and Genre in Franco-Maghrebi Art (2013). Her research has been supported by grant awards from the AHRC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1108829368
• ISBN 13: 9781108829366
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 262