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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Exceeding Icons of Revolution in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean -- New Approaches to Aesthetics of Revolution -- Chapter Summaries -- 1 Aesthetics of Revolution and Infra-thin Critique -- Transnationalising the Infra-thin: Revolutionary Arabesques and Le Printemps arabe -- 'Poetics of Absence': Commemoration and Resistance from Tunisia to Syria -- Infra-thin Critique and Transnational Criticism -- 2 Contingency and Resistance: Exceeding Icons through Matter and Motion -- Forms of Revolution and Revolutionary Formlessness -- Revolutions in the Peripatetic Mode: Micro-visions and -voices of Tunis -- Conclusion -- 3 Contingent Encounters: Artists, Artisans and Amateurs -- Artists and Artisans: Textiles and Transnational Resistance from Ramallah to Sidi Bouzid -- Performing Encounters, Weaving Spaces: Tunis/Sfax/Sejnane -- Faces and Spaces of Resistance: Contingent Icons of Tunisia, Egypt and Syria -- Participating across Borders: From Textiles to Virtual 'Stitching' -- Conclusion -- 4 Corporeal Resistance and Aesthetics of the Interface -- Concealing and Revealing: Beyond Revolutionary Exoticism? -- Performing Revolution: Constraint and Liberation in Tunisia, Libya and Syria -- Digitising Street Encounters: Tunisia in Graffiti, Photography and Dance -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Art and Revolution: Aesthetics and Approaches -- References -- Index.

Examines art by over twenty-five artists to enable a greater understanding of the 'Arab Uprisings' and of the term 'revolution'.