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Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances

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Series: Routledge Research in Art History

Art HistoryGeneral ArtMiddle Eastern Art

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ISBN10: 1032013427
ISBN13: 9781032013428
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 150
Language: English

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 1960s.

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, 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.

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