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Author Maasri, Zeina, author.

Title Cosmopolitan radicalism : the visual politics of Beirut's global sixties / Zeina Maasri
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 281 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series The global Middle East
Global Middle East (Cambridge, England)
Contents Introduction : Beirut in the Global Sixties : Design, Politics and Translocal Visuality -- Dislocating the Nation : Mediterraneanscapes in Lebanon's Tourist Promotion -- The Hot Third World in the Cultural Cold War : Modernism, Arabic Literary Journals and US Counterinsurgency -- The Visual Economy of 'Precious Books' : Publishing, Modern Art and the Design of Arabic Books -- Ornament is No Crime : Decolonising the Arabic Page from Cairo to Beirut -- Art is in the 'Arab Street': The Palestinian Revolution and Printscapes of Solidarity -- Draw Me a Gun : Radical Children's Books in the Trenches of 'Arab Hanoi.'
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 23, 2020)
Subject Art and society -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Modernism (Art) -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Cosmopolitanism -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Design -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Book design -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Decolonization in art.
Visual communication -- Political aspects -- Lebanon -- Beirut
Art and society
Book design
Civilization
Cosmopolitanism
Decolonization in art
Design
Modernism (Art)
Visual communication -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Beirut (Lebanon) -- Civilization -- 20th century
Subject Lebanon -- Beirut
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019051254
ISBN 9781108767736
1108767737