TY - BOOK ID - 94167503 TI - Under the skin : feminist art and art histories from the Middle East and North Africa today AU - Özpinar, Ceren AU - Kelly, Mary PY - 2020 SN - 9780197266748 0197266746 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Art KW - art history KW - feminism KW - women's studies KW - gender [sociological concept] KW - #breakthecanon KW - Middle East KW - North Africa KW - Art and society KW - Art and society. KW - Art et société KW - Art. KW - Feminism and art KW - Feminism and art. KW - Feminismus. KW - Frauenkunst. KW - Féminisme et art KW - Kunstwissenschaft. KW - Histoire KW - History KW - Middle East. KW - Naher Osten. KW - Nordafrika. KW - North Africa. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:94167503 AB - *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 twelve 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 of 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 of 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. ER -