Veil : veiling, representation and contemporary art /
Veil : veiling, representation and contemporary art /
edited by David A. Bailey and Gilane Tawadros.
- 187 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 22 cm
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the New Art Gallery Walsall, 14 February - 27 April 2003; Bluecoat Gallery and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 5 July - 16 August 2003; Modern Art Oxford, 22 November 2003 - 26 January 2004.
Includes bibliographical references.
The discourse of the veil / Leila Ahmed -- Mapping the illusive / Zineb Sedira -- Algeria unveiled / Frantz Fanon -- Acting out / Jananne Al-Ani -- The language of the veil / Ahdaf Soueif -- Visibility, violence and voice? attitudes to veiling post 11 September / Alison Donnell -- Poetics and politics of veil, voice and vision in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema / Hamid Naficy.
No single item of clothing has had more influence on Western images of Middle Eastern and North African women than the veil. Yet Veil is the first publication to explore the representation of the veil in contemporary visual culture. Extending possible interpretations of the veil and investigating the ambiguities and paradoxes expressed in contemporary arts practice, it provides both a social and historic context to the veil's multilayered symbolism.
1899846352 9781899846351
bA318307
Veils in art--Exhibitions
Muslim women--Clothing--Exhibitions
Veils--Africa, North.--Exhibitions
Veils--Middle East.--Exhibitions
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the New Art Gallery Walsall, 14 February - 27 April 2003; Bluecoat Gallery and Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 5 July - 16 August 2003; Modern Art Oxford, 22 November 2003 - 26 January 2004.
Includes bibliographical references.
The discourse of the veil / Leila Ahmed -- Mapping the illusive / Zineb Sedira -- Algeria unveiled / Frantz Fanon -- Acting out / Jananne Al-Ani -- The language of the veil / Ahdaf Soueif -- Visibility, violence and voice? attitudes to veiling post 11 September / Alison Donnell -- Poetics and politics of veil, voice and vision in Iranian post-revolutionary cinema / Hamid Naficy.
No single item of clothing has had more influence on Western images of Middle Eastern and North African women than the veil. Yet Veil is the first publication to explore the representation of the veil in contemporary visual culture. Extending possible interpretations of the veil and investigating the ambiguities and paradoxes expressed in contemporary arts practice, it provides both a social and historic context to the veil's multilayered symbolism.
1899846352 9781899846351
bA318307
Veils in art--Exhibitions
Muslim women--Clothing--Exhibitions
Veils--Africa, North.--Exhibitions
Veils--Middle East.--Exhibitions