Name/Title
Ghada AmerEntry/Object ID
N9500.A44.R45 2010Description
Over the past 20 years, Ghada Amer's quest to forge an aesthetic language for the oppression of women has established her as one of the most important and widely exhibited contemporary artists. Born in Cairo in 1963, and moving to France at age 11, from early on in life Amer was witness to the cross-cultural subjugation of women, whether from increasing religious conservatism in Egypt, or via the subtler machinations of Western commodity culture. In Amer's hand-embroidered paintings, delicate abstract tracings of sewn thread are counterposed with often quiet but sometimes confrontational erotic imagery. Trawling all manner of materials from fashion magazines, children's fairy tales, pornography, dictionaries, the Koran and medieval Arabic manuscripts, Amer challenges their authority, highlighting their exclusions and countering with a powerfully asserted female subject. This handsome monograph is the first publication to document the full breadth of her art, with numerous images of and detailed commentary on her paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, videos, performances and garden works.Lexicon
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artist monographs, embroidery in art, women artistsBook Details
Author
Maura Reilly, Ghada Amer, Laurie FarrellPublisher
Gregory R. Miller & Co.Date Published
2010Call No.
N9500.A44.R45ISBN
098002420X, 9780980024203Notes
Length: 312General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Writing the Body: the Art of Ghada Amer / Maura Reilly -- Paintings, Drawings, and Prints -- The Call to Play / Interview with Ghada Amer by Martine Antle -- Gardens -- Performance and Video -- Sculpture -- On the Same Page: Creativity and Exchange in the Collaborative Works of Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh / Laurie Ann Farell -- Collaborative Works on Paper / Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh.