Partisans of the Nude

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  • ISBN 9781884919374
  • Dimensions: 165 x 248mm
  • Publication Date: 07 May 2024
  • Publisher: Columbia University, Wallach Art Gallery,U.S.
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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).