Tracing the cultural, political and artistic developments over a 17-year period in Beirut's modern history

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.