TY - BOOK ID - 86132000 TI - Art and the Arab Spring : aesthetics of revolution and resistance in Tunisia and beyond PY - 2021 SN - 1108909779 1108906214 1108905226 1108842526 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Protest movements KW - Democratization KW - Art and revolutions KW - Art KW - Art, Occidental KW - Art, Visual KW - Art, Western (Western countries) KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Visual KW - Fine arts KW - Iconography KW - Occidental art KW - Visual arts KW - Western art (Western countries) KW - Arts KW - Aesthetics KW - Revolutions and art KW - Arts and revolutions KW - Politics in art KW - Democratic consolidation KW - Democratic transition KW - Political science KW - New democracies KW - Social movements KW - History KW - Political aspects KW - Art, Primitive UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86132000 AB - The revolutions that began to sweep across countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 - like other revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts - have often been articulated, internally and externally, in black and white terms of success or failure, liberation or constraint, for or against, friend or enemy. These internal and external clichés are perpetuated by what Jellel Gasteli has called 'icons of revolutionary exoticism'. Paying particular attention to works from the Tunisian Revolution of 2011, this book examines a diverse body of art including photography, sculpture, graffiti, performance, video and installation by over twenty-five artists. Examining how art can evoke the idea of revolution, Art and the Arab Spring reveals a new way of understanding these revolutions, their profound cultural impact, and of the meaning of the term 'revolution' itself. ER -