Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa
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Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa

Body Talks

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Contemporary Feminist Art by Women in North Africa

Body Talks

About this book

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, DĂ©borah Benzaquen, Fatima Mazmouz and ZaĂŻnab 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I: Ornamentation and the Female Body: Between Subversive Presence and Imagination
  8. Chapter 1: Ornate Bodies: Symbolic Markers of the Arab Female Body in Majida Khattari’s Photography
  9. Chapter 2: The Elusiveness of Arab Women: Their Subversive Presence in the Architectural Photographic Space of Lalla Essaydi
  10. Part II: Female Body and Transgression: Gender and Sexuality
  11. Chapter 3: Women’s Body, Empowerment and “Soft Transgression”: Found inï»ż Some of Zoulikha Bouabdellah’s Artworks
  12. Chapter 4: Transgressive Bodies: Exploring the Outlier Identities and Bodies in DĂ©borah Benzaquen’s Photography
  13. Part III: Liberation of the Female Body: Nudity Revisited
  14. Chapter 5: Liberating the Body in Fatima Mazmouz’s Photographic Work: From the Personal to the Political
  15. Chapter 6: Decriminalizing the Body: Art and Nudity Against the Hshouma by ZaĂŻnab Fasiki
  16. Conclusion
  17. References
  18. About the Author