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When Art Is the Weapon: Culture and Resistance Confronting Violence in the Post-Uprisings Arab World

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Author

  • Mark Levine

Summary, in English

This article examines the explosion of artistic production in the Arab world during the so-called Arab Spring. Focusing on music, poetry, theatre, and graffiti and related visual arts, I explore how these do-it-yourself scenes represent, at least potentially, a return of the aura to the production of culture at the edge of social and political transformation. At the same time, the struggle to retain a revolutionary grounding in the wake of successful counter-revolutionary moves highlights the essentially religious grounding of committed art at the intersection of intense creativity and conflict across the Arab world.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

1277-1313

Publication/Series

Religions

Volume

6

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MDPI AG

Topic

  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
  • Visual Arts

Keywords

  • Arab Spring
  • revolutionary art
  • Tahrir Square

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2077-1444