Art, Feminism, and Community

Ceren Özpınar is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Brighton. Prior to this, Özpınar 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

Özpınar brings new and exciting discussions to feminist analysis of contemporary art and to analysis of Turkish modern/contemporary culture. This extremely well-researched book will undoubtedly contribute immensely to feminist art historiography in particular, as well as to the contemporary literature on feminist art, on Turkish art, and on contemporary art more generally.