Contemporary Arab Women's Art
Subtitle: Dialogues of the Present (Women's Art Library)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: October 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781860645990
Subjects: Cultural studies; Ethnic studies; Oriental art; The Arts: General Issues; Women's studies; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Exhibitions; Art & Art Instruction; Women artists; Art; Middle Eastern; General; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); Art / History / Asian; 20th century; Arab countries; Art, Arab
First sentence: Writing as a western woman and a historian of art, I am increasingly conscious of the binary oppositions which dominate western thinking and work to privilege one thing above another: male over female, west over east, mind over body, and so forth.