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100	1		_aHanan Toukan
245	1	4	_aThe Politics of Art: _bDissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan
264		1	_aStanford: _bStanford University Press, _c2021
300			_a316 p., _bill.; _c26 cm
490	1		_aStanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aCultural wars and the politics of diplomacy -- "An artist who cannot speak English is no artist" -- The dissonance of dissent : art and artists after 1990 -- Intermezzo -- Beirut : the rise and rise of postwar art -- Amman : uneasy lie the arts -- Ramallah : the paintbrush is mightier than the M16.
520			_a"Over the last three decades, a new generation of conceptual artists has come to the fore in the Arab Middle East. As wars, peace treaties, sanctions, and large-scale economic developments have reshaped the region, this cohort of cultural producers has also found themselves at the center of intergenerational debates on the role of art in society. Central to these cultural debates is a steady stream of support from North American and European funding organizations--resources that only increased with the start of the Arab uprisings in the early 2010s. 'The Politics of Art' offers an unprecedented look into the entanglement of art and international politics in Beirut, Ramallah, and Amman to understand the aesthetics of material production within liberal economies. Hanan Toukan outlines the political and social functions of transnationally connected and internationally funded arts organizations and initiatives, and reveals how the production of art within global frameworks can contribute to hegemonic structures even as it is critiquing them--or be counterhegemonic even when it first appears not to be. In so doing, Toukan proposes not only a new way of reading contemporary art practices as they situate themselves globally, but also a new way of reading the domestic politics of the region from the vantage point of art"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aArt _xPolitical aspects _zLebanon
650		0	_aArt _xPolitical aspects _zPalestine
650		0	_aArt _xPolitical aspects _zJordan
650		0	_aArt _xPolitical aspects _zMiddle East
650		0	_aMiddle Eastern art _xFinance _xInternational cooperation
650		0	_aCultural diplomacy _zPalestine _zJordan _zLebanon
830		0	_aStanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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