About the Author

Gannit Ankori, an Associate Professor of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is currently a Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor at the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School. She has published and lectured extensively on Palestinian art since 1987 and is the author of numerous articles and two books on Frida Kahlo, among which is Imaging her Selves: Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation (2002), and a recent catalogue essay for the Frida Kahlo retrospective at Tate Modern, London (2005). Her other publications relate to hybridity, gender, exile, displacement, postcolonial identities and the manifestations of these issues in the visual arts.

Reviews

Winner of the Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines 2007 The excellent Reaktion Books has scored another coup with Palestinian Art - the only work in English on this theme The Independent What's wonderful about Palestinian Art is that it brings to our attention so many very good artists, and that through both the color plates and Ankori's incisive commentary and analysis, we learn that they have so much more on their minds than "the conflict" The Boston Globe Ankori guides us fluently through the largely uncharted territory of modern Palestinian art Contemporary Gannit Ankori's book Palestinian Art, a prime model of art historical research, deviates from the narrow confines of the discipline and must be read as a cultural document ... and as an expression of an ethical position espoused by a scholar in times of continued occupation ... The analysis of the diverse artworks is rich and fascinating because it interweaves the visual with the theoretical and the biographical. Afterimage Ankori does an excellent job of balancing an interpretation of the work of individual artists with placing them in the context of the historical, political, cultural, and symbolic meanings inherent in Palestinian art. She formulates a definition of Palestinian art that extends well beyond the overtly political themes. ARLIS Ankori's vision suggests an inclusive method of looking at art. It is a blueprint for writers and readers to study on how writing the cultural history of a nation is possible. Al Jadid