Art and the Arab Spring: Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and Beyond
- ISBN-10
- 1108829368
- ISBN-13
- 9781108829366
- Category
- Art
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021
- Author
- Siobhán Shilton
Description
"The revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests that began to sweep across numerous countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 shocked the world. The significance of the uneven phenomenon which has often been named the 'Arab Spring' is still not fully understood. What is certain is that the events triggered partly by the self-immolation of the Tunisian fruit-stall owner, Mohammed Bouazizi, have changed this diverse region irrevocably, leading to the explosion of enduring political frameworks or - in Syria - to civil war and mass exodus. These Revolutions - like other Revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts - have often tended to be articulated, internally and externally, in black and white terms of success or failure, liberation or constraint, for or against, friend or enemy. The complex range of perspectives in Tunisia has, for example, at times, been reduced to binary perceptions of secularism and religion or, more extremely, a 'Western' notion of democracy and a radical version of Islamism. The metaphor of an 'Arab Spring' was swiftly replaced, in both journalism and scholarship, by that - equally reductive - of an 'Islamist Winter'. The Revolutions came often to be presented as a closed chapter. Yet, art engaging with this phenomenon frequently contributes an alternative perspective. A striking range of art evokes, and encourages, a more nuanced understanding of these Revolutions, and of the idea of 'revolution', more widely. In this book I ask how such work - in photography, sculpture, graffiti, performance, video and installation - forges a way between internal and external clichés. How does this art evoke the idea of revolution? How does it invent new aesthetics? How do these works call for alternative critical approaches?"--
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