This is a fascinating look at the embroidery-based work of acclaimed contemporary artist Ghada Amer. With subjects as delicate and personal as pleasure and love," Ghada Amer" shows that it is possible to resist a conventional representation of women in art. Referencing pornography and other popular vehicles directed at a heterosexual male audience, Amer's embroidery-based work contrasts traditional female handicraft with mainstream popular culture. Going even further, several pictorial works refer to well-known artists such as Ingres and Picasso. Taking works from the canon as her starting point, the artist observes the idealizing narrative construction of Western art history, indulging in a conventional presentation of an image of women that satisfies a voyeuristic gaze.
- ISBN10 2551251427
- ISBN13 9782551251421
- Publish Date 12 April 2012
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 14 April 2017
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Gouvernement du Quebec
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 88
- Language English