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Scheid, Kirsten.

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Painters, picture-makers, and Lebanon: Ambiguous identities in an unsettled state.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Painters, picture-makers, and Lebanon: Ambiguous identities in an unsettled state./
Author:	Scheid, Kirsten.
Description:	550 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2275.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3180068
ISBN:	0542198088

Painters, picture-makers, and Lebanon: Ambiguous identities in an unsettled state.
Scheid, Kirsten.

Painters, picture-makers, and Lebanon: Ambiguous identities in an unsettled state. - 550 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2275.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.

This dissertation is an ethnography of art production in Lebanon. It combines historical and contemporary data about the importation and implantation of easel-painting into a contested social setting to demonstrate the agency of art in society. Given the indexicality of art---i.e. the historically allocated role of painting as an index of civilizational development and cultural identity---activities that have produced art and debates that have surrounded that production have also been ways of influencing social change.

ISBN: 0542198088Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Painters, picture-makers, and Lebanon: Ambiguous identities in an unsettled state.
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520 $a This dissertation is an ethnography of art production in Lebanon. It combines historical and contemporary data about the importation and implantation of easel-painting into a contested social setting to demonstrate the agency of art in society. Given the indexicality of art---i.e. the historically allocated role of painting as an index of civilizational development and cultural identity---activities that have produced art and debates that have surrounded that production have also been ways of influencing social change.
520 $a Scrutinizing specific genres of painting (landscape, nude, and abstract) that were undertaken between the 1920s and 1980s, the dissertation shows what the activities involved in producing such painting---for example, touring, surveying, modeling, exhibiting, selling, consuming, and critiquing for the local media---meant to the production of cosmopolitan affiliations, reworked urban space, claims on government spending, and the cultivation of a national patrimony. Placing this art-production activity in the context of the tenuous French Mandate of Lebanon and the independent yet fragile Lebanese republic, the data presented indicates that local identity formation has been implemented through cross-cultural exchange in the medium of art, and that this exchange has generated and continues to generate ambiguous identities. By looking at Lebanon through the lens of art production the analysis avoids taking for granted the state/citizen category of belonging---a category which then seems to have failed---or any other competing categories, such as colony/colonized, periphery/marginal, modernity/universal mankind, etc., or even the conceptual split riving each category into a binary opposition. Each of these identity sets can be seen as competing claims that were put forward at certain fraught moments by ambitious, situated actors.
520 $a In terms of the anthropology of art, this dissertation addresses an imbalance which has resulted from studies of fine-art being confined to metropolitan centers of production. By doing so it also calls into question the cross-cultural search for art and brings to the fore conditions of anthropological knowledge about art. From the study of art in circulation the dissertation offers a theory of the mutual constitution of art objects and audiences and peripheral and canonical art worlds.
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