@Book{648859320,
author="Kane, Patrick M.",
title="politics of art in modern Egypt: aesthetics, ideology and nation-building",
series="Library of modern Middle-East studies 105",
year="2013",
publisher="Tauris",
address="London [u.a.]",
keywords="Art; Political aspects; Egypt; Art, Egyptian; Kunst; Geschichte; Kunstwissenschaft; {\"A}gypten; Verh{\"a}ltnis Kunst/Kultur - Politik/Gesellschaft; Zeitgeschichte; Kunstgeschichte; Arts; Relations between arts and politics/society; Contemporary history; Art history; Zivilgesellschaft; {\"A}sthetik; Civil society; Aesthetics",
contents="The social horizon of Egyptian aesthetics --. - Art institutions, agrarian conflict and fascism from 1908-40 --. - Art in Egyptian civil society, 1938-51 --. - The festival and the state : the contemporary art group and a philosophy of traditional arts --. - The landlord-peasant battles as a subject for the arts : from Buhut to Kamshish --. - Conflicts in the arts over upper Egypt : ʻAbd al-Hadi al-Gazzar and his contemporaries --. - Conclusion : political currents in the philosophy and experience of Egyptian aesthetics",
abstract="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",
note="Patrick M. Kane",
note="Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index",
isbn="9781848856042",
language="English"
}