Ghada Amer 

Thérèse St-Gelais 

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
88 pp 20 col. ill. 8.5 x 6.5 in hardcover
978-2-551-25142-1 
$22.95 Can. $24.95 U.S. (18 €)
January 2012

With subjects as delicate and personal as pleasure and love, Ghada Amer shows that it is possible to resist a conventional representation of women in art. Referencing pornography and other popular vehicles directed at a heterosexual male audience, Amer’s embroidery-based work contrasts traditional female handicraft with mainstream popular culture. Going even further, several pictorial works refer to well-known artists such as Ingres and Picasso. Taking works from the canon as her starting point, the artist observes the idealizing narrative construction of Western art history, indulging in a conventional presentation of an image of women that satisfies a voyeuristic gaze. In English and French.

Born in Cairo in 1963, Amer spent a number of years in France and studied fine arts in Nice before moving to New York, where she now lives. She has exhibited widely from the Brooklyn Museum of Art to the Centre Pompidou. Thérèse St-Gelais is one of the country’s leading authors of books and exhibition catalogues on women and art.










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