Street Art in the Middle East

Since the 2011 Arab Spring street art has been a vehicle for political discourse in the Middle East, and has generated much discussion in both the popular media and academia. Yet, this conversation has generalised street art and identified it as a singular form with identical styles and objectives throughout the region. Street art's purpose is, however, defined by the socio-cultural circumstances of its production. Middle Eastern artists thus adopt distinctive methods in creating their individual work and responding to their individual environments. Here, in this new book, Sabrina De Turk employs rigorous visual analysis to explore the diversity of Middle Eastern street art and uses case studies of countries as varied as Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain and Oman to illustrate how geographic specifics impact upon its function and aesthetic. Her book will be of significant interest to scholars specialising in art from the Middle East and North Africa and those who bring an interdisciplinary perspective to Middle East studies.

Product details

• Authors: Sabrina de Turk, DE TURK SABRINA, Sabrina de Turk
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781784539900
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-990-0
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 17 mm
• Series: International Library of Visual Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Cultural Studies, 20th Century, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Other graphic art forms, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Urban communities, Other graphic or visual art forms