Veil: Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art.(Book Review)

From: African Arts | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: Meier, Prita | Copyright information

Veil Veiling, Representation, and Contemporary Art Edited by David A. Bailey and Gilane Tawadros

The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2003. 187 pp., 75 illustrations, foreword, artist and author's biographies. Full color. $25 softcover.

Mass media images of veiled Middle Eastern women are circulating at an unprecedented volume since the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Europe (particularly France and to a lesser extent Germany) has also revitalized questions re...

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