{"product_id":"beautiful-agitation-anneka-lenssen-9780520343245","title":"Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn modern Syria, a contested territory at the intersection of differing regimes of political representation, artists ventured to develop strikingly new kinds of painting to link their images to life forces and agitated energies. Examining the works of artists Kahlil Gibran, Adham Ismail, and Fateh al-Moudarres, \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Agitation\u003c\/i\u003e explores how painters in Syria activated the mutability of form to rethink relationships of figure to ground, outward appearance to inner presence, and self to world. Drawing on archival materials in Syria and beyond, Anneka Lenssen reveals new trajectories of painterly practice in a twentieth century defined by shifting media technologies, moving populations, and the imposition of violently enforced nation-state borders. The result is a study of Arab modernism that foregrounds rather than occludes efforts to agitate against imposed identities and intersubjective relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anneka Lenssen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520343247\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520343245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Anneka Lenssen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046176649471,"sku":"9780520343245","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4fb623b8-77ff-4167-9e2b-1f98cd7b5629.jpg?v=1684983078","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beautiful-agitation-anneka-lenssen-9780520343245","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}