The Politics of Art in Modern Egypt: Aesthetics, Ideology and Nation-Building

by Patrick Kane

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848856040
• ISBN13: 9781848856042
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.9"