Art and war: the Syrian case
Disciplines
Blog Post
French
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In Syria, the local art scene was quite remarkable a few months before the February 2011 uprisings. Together with the early stages of Arab modernity in the second half of the nineteenth century and supported during the baathist period by strong investments by the political authorities, Damascus had become symbolically the Arab world’s ‘cultural capital’ for 2008 (ticket of the time), and in fact culture was already ‘in crisis’. N...