Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa

Body Talks

AvRamona Mielusel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Del i serien After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France

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Beskrivning

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa: Body Talks dissects the diverse perceptions of the body and how it becomes symbolically charged in the artwork of six contemporary Maghrebi female artists: Majida Khattari, Lalla Essaydi, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Déborah Benzaquen, Fatima Mazmouz and Zaïnab Fasiki. With a focus on the French, Maghrebi, and North American market and examining artistic mediums ranging from painting and photography to videos and installations, Ramona Mielusel highlights how the body functions as both subject and object of aesthetic discourse. The author denotes these artistic works as the intersection of the intimate and the impersonal, of the individual perception and the communitarian and societal view, without promoting a fixed notion of the body in a specific spatiality and temporality. This book explores the work of female Maghrebi artists and their intentional framing of the body’s duality between the symbolic and the real, between cultural interpretation of the body in literature and the actual perception of the body.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-08-21
Mått:160 x 236 x 18 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
Antal sidor:166
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666949940

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Ramona Mielusel is associate professor of French and francophone studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Recensioner i media

Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa is a valuable inquiry into the vital forces at the heart of some of the most bold and compelling works in the Maghreb today. Mielusel’s focus on the body, and on its multiple forms of symbolic representation, forges productive connections between aesthetics and culture, placing women at the center of a vibrant cultural moment.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1Ornate Bodies: Symbolic Markers of the Arab Female Body in Majida Khattari’s PhotographyChapter 2The Elusiveness of Arab Women and their Subversive Presence in the Architectural Photographic Space of Lalla EssaydiChapter 3Women’s Body, Empowerment and “Soft Transgression” in Some of Zoulikha Bouabdellah’s artworksChapter 4Transgressive Bodies: Exploring the Outlier Identities and Bodies in Déborah Benzaquen’s PhotographyChapter 5Liberating the Body in Fatima Mazmouz’s photographic work: from the Personal to the PoliticalChapter 6Decriminalizing the Body: Art and Nudity against the Hshouma by Zaïnab Fasiki