Max Weiss Bücher

Bildband im Format 23,5 x 16,5 cm mit eindrücklichen Aufnahmen des Engadins. Dazu passende besinnliche lyrische Texte und Bildlegenden. Der Fotograf und Autor zeigt bekannte und versteckte Motive des Engadins. Die fein empfundenen Texte mit französischen, englischen, italienischen und romanischen Uebersetzungen zeugen von einer grossen Liebe zu dieser einzigartigen Berglandschaft. Der Bildband ist auch in Japanisch erhältlich.

The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project--a Bathist cultural revolution--sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The ensuing agonistic struggle pitted official aesthetics of power against alternative modes of creative expression that could evade or ignore the effects of the state. With this book, Max Weiss offers the first cultural and intellectual history of Bathist Syria, from the coming to power of Hafiz al-Asad, through the transitional period under Bashar al-Asad, and continuing up through the Syria War. Revolutions Aesthetic reconceptualizes contemporary Syrian politics, authoritarianism, and cultural life. Engaging rich original sources--novels, films, and cultural periodicals--Weiss highlights themes crucial to the making of contemporary Syria: heroism and leadership, gender and power, comedy and ideology, surveillance and the senses, witnessing and temporality, and death and the imagination. Revolutions Aesthetic places front and center the struggle around aesthetic ideology that has been key to the constitution of state, society, and culture in Syria over the course of the past fifty years.