Name: The Politics of Art in Modern Egypt: Aesthetics, Ideology and Nation-Building (en Inglés)
SKU: 25903834
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Author: Kane, Patrick
ISBN: 9781848856042

portada The Politics of Art in Modern Egypt: Aesthetics, Ideology and Nation-Building (en Inglés)

The Politics of Art in Modern Egypt: Aesthetics, Ideology and Nation-Building (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Patrick Kane

Editorial

I. B. Tauris & Company

Año

2013

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.6x14.6x3 cm

Peso

0.48 kg.

ISBN

1848856040

ISBN13

9781848856042

Categorías

Oriente próximo
Historia del arte

The Politics of Art in Modern Egypt: Aesthetics, Ideology and Nation-Building (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "The Politics of Art in Modern Egypt: Aesthetics, Ideology and Nation-Building (en Inglés)"

Art and cultural production in Egypt during much of the last hundred years has operated against a backdrop of political crisis and confrontation. Patrick Kane focuses on the turbulent changes of the 1920s to 1960s, when polemical discourse and artistic practice developed against the entrenched and co-opted conservatism of elite and state culture. Radical forms of cultural criticism and dissonance emerged, and this legacy continues to resonate through contemporary activism and dissent. Kane charts the rise of key art movements, like the Egyptian Surrealists and the Contemporary Art Group, and explores their resistance to the Nahda paradigm of elite culture, as well as Nasser's state authoritarianism and nationalist agenda. Through the work of artists and critics like Abd al-Hadi al-Gazzar and Gamal al-Sagini, Kane provides rare insight into the Egyptian cultural and aesthetic experience, and how it has been shaped within a context of political and social conflict.