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03872aam a2200553 i 4500 001 A84997B438A911ED914067003BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220920010102 008 220128s2022 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022004392 020 $a 1503631958 020 $a 9781503631953 020 $a 1503630587 020 $a 9781503630581 035 $a (OCoLC)1261880071 040 $a CSt/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d CDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-sy--- 050 00 $a DS94.6 $b .W447 2022 082 00 $a 956.9104/2 $2 23/eng/20220217 100 1 $a Weiss, Max, $d 1977- $e author. 245 10 $a Revolutions aesthetic : $b a cultural history of Bathist Syria / $c Max Weiss. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 438 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : aesthetics and politics in contemporary Syria -- Bathist cultural revolution -- Men of commitment -- The funny thing about dictatorship -- Reading writing mukhabarat -- The slow witness -- Faces of death -- Conclusion : the art of the real. 520 $a "The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project--a Ba'thist cultural revolution--sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The ensuing agonistic struggle pitted official aesthetics of power against alternative modes of creative expression that could evade or ignore the effects of the state. With this book, Max Weiss offers the first cultural and intellectual history of Ba'thist Syria, from the coming to power of Hafiz al-Asad, through the transitional period under Bashar al-Asad, and continuing up through the Syria War. Revolutions Aesthetic reconceptualizes contemporary Syrian politics, authoritarianism, and cultural life. Engaging rich original sources--novels, films, and cultural periodicals--Weiss highlights themes crucial to the making of contemporary Syria: heroism and leadership, gender and power, comedy and ideology, surveillance and the senses, witnessing and temporality, and death and the imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic places front and center the struggle around aesthetic ideology that has been key to the constitution of state, society, and culture in Syria over the course of the past fifty years"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Politics and culture $z Syria $x History. 651 0 $a Syria $x Cultural policy. 651 0 $a Syria $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Syria $x Intellectual life $y 21st century. 651 0 $a Syria $x Politics and government $y 1971-2000. 651 0 $a Syria $x Politics and government $y 2000- 650 6 $a Politique et culture $z Syrie $x Histoire. 651 6 $a Syrie $x Politique et gouvernement $y 1971-2000. 651 6 $a Syrie $x Politique et gouvernement $y 2000- 650 7 $a Cultural policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00885007 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 $a Politics and culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069952 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Syria. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208757 648 7 $a Since 1900 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Weiss, Max, 1977- $t Revolutions aesthetic $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022] $z 9781503631960 $w (DLC) 2022004393 830 0 $a Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015646.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A84997B438A911ED914067003BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search