Weaving Women and the Nation in Tunisia
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Channel: Emory University · 2010 · Education
Jessica Gerschultz, a PhD student the Art History program in the Laney Graduate School, is writing her dissertation on the art of Safia Farhat. Farhats woven tapestries uses a traditionally female art form, weaving, to address the role of women in Tunisia after independence, by incorporating both traditional patterns and abstract imagery into complex artistic statements.
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