Open AccessWomen Artists in Arab Countries
Author(s) -
Nuha Tabbara Hammoud
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.1218
Subject(s) - period (music) , independence (probability theory) , assertion , ancient history , history , economic history , political science , art , aesthetics , statistics , mathematics , computer science , programming language
The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed in the Arab World a limited number of artists most of whom were men; but the period between the fifties and eighties marked the birth of many women artists, especially in Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq and other countries - some of them with important affiliations, others with none - but they all had one thing in common: self-assertion and the struggle for more social and economic independence, after a long period of imposed absence.