Gannit Ankori (

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

: גנית אנקורי) is an Israeli art historian. She is Professor of Fine Arts and Chair in Israeli Art at the Department of Fine Arts at

Brandeis University , mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts" , established = , type = Private research university , accreditation = NECHE , president = Ronald D. Liebowitz , ...

. She was previously chair of the Department of Art History at

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

.Scholarly Association Settles 'Libel Tourism' Case , Jennifer Howard, The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 18, 200

/ref> Ankori studies gender studies,

Palestinian art Palestinian art is a term used to refer to paintings, posters, installation art and other visual media produced by Palestinian artists. While the term has also been used to refer to ancient art produced in the geographical region of Palestine, ...

, and the art of the

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.Neutrals, Caught in the Crossfire, by J.J. Goldberg, The Jewish Daily Forward, July 10, 2008

/ref> Ankori is regarded as a "champion" of Palestinian art and has devoted two decades of her career to the study of Palestinian art which she views as a continuous artistic tradition before and after the

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of 1948. Her sister is the actress Gilat Ankori.

Books

She has published extensively in the fields of Mexican, Palestinian, and Israeli art, as well as feminist cultural studies. Her articles have been printed in Hebrew, Arabic, French, German, and English. * ''Palestinian art,'' Reaktion Books, 2006 * ''Imaging her selves: Frida Kahlo's poetics of identity and fragmentation, Greenwood Press, 2002 * ''The Fractured Self: Identity and Fragmentation in the Art of Frida Kahlo,'' 1994

Articles

* Yocheved Weinfeld's portraits of the self, Gannit Ankori, (Woman's Art Journal, vol. 10 no.2, 1989)

References

Israeli art historians Living people Hebrew University of Jerusalem faculty Brandeis University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Women art historians 21st-century Israeli women 20th-century Israeli women Israeli women academics {{Israel-historian-stub