Siobhán Shilton is Reader in French Studies and the Visual Arts at the University of Bristol. She has published books and articles on art and the 'Arab Uprisings', cultural encounters in photography, video, graffiti, graphic novels, installation and performance art, and twentieth-century travel literature in French, including Transcultural Encounters: Gender and Genre in Franco-Maghrebi Art (2013). Her research has been supported by grant awards from the AHRC.

• Introduction. Exceeding Icons of Revolution in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean; 1. Aesthetics of Revolution and Infra-thin Critique; 2. Contingency and Resistance: Exceeding Icons through Matter and Motion; 3. Contingent Encounters: Artists, Artisans and Amateurs; 4. Corporeal Resistance and Aesthetics of the Interface; Conclusion. Art and Revolution: Aesthetics and Approaches.

'Shilton maps the post revolutionary artistic outpouring in Tunisia while making eclectic forays into the art scene in Egypt, Libya and Syria. This is a fine contribution to the burgeoning study of art and the aesthetics of revolt in Tunisia and the Arab world writ large.' Nouri Gana, University of California

Siobhán Shilton is Reader in French Studies and the Visual Arts at the University of Bristol. She has published books and articles on art and the 'Arab Uprisings', cultural encounters in photography, video, graffiti, graphic novels, installation and performance art, and twentieth-century travel literature in French, including Transcultural Encounters: Gender and Genre in Franco-Maghrebi Art (2013). Her research has been supported by grant awards from the AHRC.

• Introduction. Exceeding Icons of Revolution in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean; 1. Aesthetics of Revolution and Infra-thin Critique; 2. Contingency and Resistance: Exceeding Icons through Matter and Motion; 3. Contingent Encounters: Artists, Artisans and Amateurs; 4. Corporeal Resistance and Aesthetics of the Interface; Conclusion. Art and Revolution: Aesthetics and Approaches.

'Shilton maps the post revolutionary artistic outpouring in Tunisia while making eclectic forays into the art scene in Egypt, Libya and Syria. This is a fine contribution to the burgeoning study of art and the aesthetics of revolt in Tunisia and the Arab world writ large.' Nouri Gana, University of California

Siobhán Shilton is Reader in French Studies and the Visual Arts at the University of Bristol. She has published books and articles on art and the 'Arab Uprisings', cultural encounters in photography, video, graffiti, graphic novels, installation and performance art, and twentieth-century travel literature in French, including Transcultural Encounters: Gender and Genre in Franco-Maghrebi Art (2013). Her research has been supported by grant awards from the AHRC.

• Introduction. Exceeding Icons of Revolution in North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean; 1. Aesthetics of Revolution and Infra-thin Critique; 2. Contingency and Resistance: Exceeding Icons through Matter and Motion; 3. Contingent Encounters: Artists, Artisans and Amateurs; 4. Corporeal Resistance and Aesthetics of the Interface; Conclusion. Art and Revolution: Aesthetics and Approaches.

'Shilton maps the post revolutionary artistic outpouring in Tunisia while making eclectic forays into the art scene in Egypt, Libya and Syria. This is a fine contribution to the burgeoning study of art and the aesthetics of revolt in Tunisia and the Arab world writ large.' Nouri Gana, University of California