Partisans of the Nude
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Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab.

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Produktbeschreibung
Partisans of the Nude is a survey of genre art of the nude made by artists in areas that were formerly Ottoman but not yet Arab.
Autorenporträt
Kirsten L. Scheid is the curator of the exhibition Partisans of the Nude held at the Wallach Art Gallery from October 6, 2023 through January 14, 2023. She is a Professor of Anthropology and Art Studies at the American University of Beirut and researches the anthropology of modern and contemporary Arab art, imaginations/ontologies, de/coloniality, materiality, gender, Islam, art theory and historiography, and cross-cultural art junctures. Recent publications include Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950, (Indiana University Press, 2022) and "Palestinian Art Talk: A Local Lexicon for Global Art Production," in In Motion: The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement (Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2022). Scheid co-curated The Arab Nude: The Artist as Awakener (American University of Beirut, 2016), the ninth edition of the Jerusalem show Jerusalem: Actual and Possible, (Al Ma'mal, Jerusalem, 2018), and Historical Modernisms (ArteEast's Virtual Gallery, 2008). She is also co-founder of the Anthropology Society in Lebanon (ASIL) in Beirut (since 2006) and co-founder of a cultural resource center and an Arabic children's book line Hikayat Walad min Bayrut (Stories of a Child from Beirut, 2004).