Veil : veiling, representation and contemporary art
Entry/Object ID
GT2112.V45 2003
Description
Essays and artworks exploring the representation and meaning of the veil in contemporary visual culture.
Context
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK and three other institutions between Feb. 14, 2003 and Jan. 2004.
Acquisition
Source (if not Accessioned)
Nancy Micklewright
Notes
Gift of Nancy Micklewright, July 2025.
Lexicon
Search Terms
muslim women--clothing--exhibitions, veils--exhibitions, veils--middle east, veils--north africa, veils in art
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Exhibition catalog
Book Details
Editor
David A. Bailey, Gilane Tawadros
Publisher
Institute of International Visual Arts, Modern Art Oxford
Place Published
City
London
Date Published
2003
ISBN
1899846352
Notes
Length: 187
General Notes
Note Type
Contents
Note
Foreword / David A. Bailey, Suzanne Cotter, Gilane Tawadros -- Preface / Reina Lewis -- Introduction / David A. Bailey, Gilane Tawadros -- Discourse of the Veil / Leila Ahmed -- Mapping the illusive / Zineb Sedira -- Algeria unveiled / Frantz Fanon -- Acting out / Jananne Al-Ani -- 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.
