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Palestinian art

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Reaktion Books, 2006 - Art - 255 pages
Turmoil and violence have defined the lives of Palestinian people over the last few decades, yet in the midst of the chaos artists live and thrive, creating little-seen work that is a powerful response to their situation. Gannit Ankori's Palestinian Art is the first in-depth English-language assessment of contemporary Palestinian art, and it offers an unprecedented and wholly original overview of this art in all its complexity.

Ankori comprehensively traces the full history and development of Palestinian art, from its roots in folk art and traditional Christian and Islamic painting to the predominance of nationalistic themes and diverse media used today. Drawing on over a decade of extensive research, studio visits, and interviews, Ankori explores the vast oeuvre of prominent contemporary Palestinian artists, navigating between the personal and biographical dimensions of specific artworks and the symbolic meanings embedded within them. She provides detailed interpretations of many works and considers the complex historical, geographical, political, and cultural contexts in which the art was created. Questions of gender, exile, colonialism, postcolonialism, and hybridity are integral to Ankori's investigation as she probes the influence and thematic dominance of issues such as rootedness and displacement in Palestinian art. 

Palestinian Art is a fascinating introduction to a virtually unknown visual culture that has been subsumed under the torrent of current political turmoil. A groundbreaking and essential work of art scholarship, Palestinian Art illuminates new and unique facets of the Palestinian cultural identity.
  

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Written well when and full of art criticism. Unless you're into that you might not find it SOOO captivating. Read full review

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I have been lugging this big format art book on my trips to work meetings on airplanes. It's on Palestinian art written by an Israeli woman. Palestinian Art helps me understand the intersection of ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction Broken Narratives and DisOrientalism
15
The Shadow of the Nakba Art before 1948
23
Exile and Memories Art after 1948
47
EARTH AND SKY
59
Earth Sliman Mansour and the Poetics of Sumud
60
Sky Kamal Boullata and the Quest for Light
93
BODY AND HOME
119
Mona Hatoum Nomadic Bodies Exilic Spaces
121
BEING ARAB IN ISRAEL
175
Visual Voices from the Interior
176
Postscript
217
References
221
Bibliography
240
Acknowledgements
247
Photo Copyright Acknowledgements
249
Index
250

Khalil Rabahs Split Self Black SkinWhite Masks
155
Copyright

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Gannit Ankori. Palestinian Art. - Free Online Library
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The Facets of Palestinian Art
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Al Jazeera English - Archive - Book Records Palestinian Art History
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Palestinian art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Palestinian art is a term used to refer to paintings, posters, installation art and other visual media produced by Palestinian artists. ...
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Uncharted territories - The Boston Globe
A new study of contemporary Palestinian art, the first of its kind, reveals artists with a lot more than 'the conflict' on their minds ...
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Permission to paint: Palestinian art and the colonial encounter ...
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About the author (2006)

Gannit Ankori, an associate professor of art history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is currently a research associate at the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. She has published and lectured extensively on Palestinian art since 1987, and is the author of numerous articles and two books on Frida Kahlo, including Imaging Her Selves: Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation.

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TitlePalestinian art
AuthorGannit Ankori
Editionillustrated
PublisherReaktion Books, 2006
ISBN1861892594, 9781861892591
Length255 pages
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Art / Middle Eastern
Art / Techniques / Painting
History / Middle East / General
  
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