Under the skin : feminist art and art histories from the Middle East and North Africa today / edited by Ceren Özpinar and Mary Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Özpınar, Ceren, editor.

Kelly, Mary (Art historian), editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 0068-1202 230.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0668-1202 ; 230

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism and art--Middle East.

Feminism and art.

Feminism and art--Africa, North.

Art--Middle East--History.

Art.

Art--Africa, North--History.

History.

Middle East.

North Africa.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 201 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today is set out to show what is beneath the surface, under the appearances of skin, body, colour and provenance, and not the cultural fixities or partial views detached from the realities of communities, cultures and practices from the area. Through 12 chapters, Under the Skin brings together artistic practices and complex histories informed by feminisms from diverse cultural and geographical contexts: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. The aim is not to represent all of the countries from the Middle East and North Africa, but to present a cross-section that reflects the variety of nations, cultures, languages and identities across the area--including those of Berber, Mizrahi Jews, Kurdish, Muslim, Christian, Arab, Persian and Armenian peoples. It thus considers art informed by feminisms through translocal and transnational lenses of diverse ethnic, linguistic and religious groups not solely as a manifestation of multiple and complex social constructions, but also as a crucial subject of analysis in the project of decolonising art history and contemporary visual culture. The volume offers an understanding on how art responds to and shapes cultural attitudes towards gender and sexuality, ethnicity/race, religion, tradition, modernity and contemporaneity, and local and global politics. And it strives to strike a balance by connecting the studies of scholars based in the European-North American geography with those attached to the institutions in the Middle East and North Africa in order to stimulate different feminist and decolonial perspectives and debates on art and visual culture from the area"--Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword / Griselda Pollock, Nadia Radwan and Mandy Merzaban

List of plats

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Transnational feminisms and the decolonialisation of the history of art / Ceren Özpinar and Mary Kelly

Part I: Agency and resistance to national and global discourse. 1. Have there really been no great women artists? Writing a feminist art history of modern Egypt / Nadine Atallah

2. Feminism and social critique in Syrian contemporary art / Charlotte Bank

3. Hyphenated. Transnational feminism in contemporary Israeli art: Between Mizrahi and Arab identities / Tal Dekel

4. The moment of change: Thematic stands in contemporary Saudi women's art / Lina M. Kattan

Part II: Translating ethnicity and subjectivity into art. 5. The articulating-self inside out: Katayoun Karami and becoming a woman / Somayeh Noori Shirazi

6. Squares of colour: Abstraction in the work of Saloua Raouda Choucair and Etel Adnan / Isabelle De Le Court

7. Transmission as resistance in the work of Zineb Sedira / Holiday Powers

8. Indigenous Algerian women artists in the French landscape: Taos Amrouche and Baya Mahieddine / Akila Kizzi

Part III: Methods and strategies for seeing politics and practices differently. 9. Notes on tending feminist methodologies / Jessica Gerschultz

10. On perpetual conflict / Rachel Nelson

11. Claims to fame: An exhibition of women artists from Turkey / Ceren Özpinar

12. Locating the first sculptural mark: An artists interview with Diana Al-Hadid / Mary Kelly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0197266746

9780197266748

OCLC:

1181837597