Art, Feminism, and Community Feminist Art Histories from Turkey, 1973-1998

How do artists, communities, and art connect with one another? How might multiple feminist views be used to interpret art? Art, Feminism, and Community: Feminist Art Histories from Turkey, 1973-1998 examines the lives and communities of artists and their works from Turkey. It suggests that feminisms shape artists' relationships and practices. It analyses seven major case studies and details rarely seen paintings, installations, photographs, drawings, batik, and performance art from 1973 to 1998. The work brings together twenty artists and cultural figures in a world of multifaceted relationships that influence the creation of new art. Uncovering familial, professional, and friendship links, it recreates transnational networks, intellectual collectives, political alliances, and ethnic communities. It demonstrates how artists have analysed their own experiences in their works, reflecting the effects of their communities and lives, even though these themes have been mostly overlooked in Turkish art history.

Ceren Özpinar, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture, University of Brighton

Ceren Özpinar is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Brighton. Prior to this, Özpinar was a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of Sussex (2015-17). Her research centres on questions of gender, sexuality, race, and transnational networks and communities in modern and contemporary art of Turkey, the Middle East, and their diasporas. She is the co-editor of Under the Skin: Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today (2020), and the author of The Art Historiography in Turkey (1970-2010) (2016). Her articles appeared in the Art Journal, Art & the Public Sphere, Image & Text, and Third Text.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contentious Narratives, Affective Ties1. Nil Yalter's Topak Ev: The Nomadic Woman Between Worlds2. Gülsün Karamustafa's Shield: Exploring the Political Through Affective Communities3. Deniz Bilgin and Defter Magazine: More Than Human Connections4. Inci Eviner's Wounded Animals: Artist-mother and Spaces of Care5. Tomur Atagök's Notes on Hale Asaf: Women's Collaborations and Feminist Solidarity6. Contentious Others: Jûjîn, Sükran Moral, and Mediated BodiesBibliographyIndex