Zeina Maasri.
Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
Name | Zeina Maasri |
z.elmaasri@brighton.ac.uk | |
Website | www.signsofconflict.org |
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University of Brighton, 10–11 Pavilion Parade |
Degree | PhD in History of Design and Material Culture University of Brighton, 2017 |
Professional Affiliation | Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Brighton |
Research/Current Projects | I work across the fields of visual and cultural politics and graphic design history with a particular attention on Lebanon and the Middle East. My current research explores the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in the Arab world from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, to critically examine a global conjuncture, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Drawing on uncharted archives of everyday printed matter, my research uncovers the transnational circuits that animated Arab modernist pursuits and sheds light on the forgotten trajectories and graphic design practices of its protagonists: Egyptian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Palestinian and Syrian artists. Decentring both Western and nation-based frameworks, my work strives to develop new methodologies for global art and design historiography and directly contributes to ‘decolonizing design’ by foregrounding historical antecedents—from the Arab world—to such critical approaches and practices. |
Time Period Interests | 20th Century |
Area Interests | East Asia, Africa |
Media Interests | Book arts, Letterpress, Lithography |
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