This volume chronicles a turbulent chapter in the development of modernism in Beirut, beginning in 1958 and ending with the 1975 outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. The accompanying exhibition highlights how collisions between art, culture and polarized political ideologies turned Beirut’s art scene into a microcosm of larger transregional tensions.

Silvana Editoriale
Hardcover, 290 pages
ISBN 9788836652945