Politics of Art in Modern Egypt
Subtitle: Aesthetics, Ideology and Nation-Building
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781848856042
Subjects: Art, political aspects; Art, egyptian
Description: Focuses on the changes of the 1920s to 1960s, when polemical discourse and artistic practice against the entrenched and co-opted conservitism of elite and state culture developed. The radical forms of cultural criticism and dissonance that emerged continue to resonate through contemporary activism and dissent.