Gannit Ankori 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

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

. She was previously chair of the Department of Art History at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Ankori studies gender studies, Palestinian art

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, in its modern usage it generally refers to work of...

, and the art of the Jewish diaspora.

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 events of 1948, which she refers to as the Nakba.

Books

• 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
  Yocheved Weinfeld
  Yocheved Weinfeld is an artist, museum educator and developer of interactive exhibitions for children. She studied at the Tel Aviv University and the State Art Teacher's College ; at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ; and at the Michaelis School of Art at the University of Cape Town .Weinfeld...
  
  's portraits of the self, Gannit Ankori, (Woman's Art Journal, vol. 10 no.2, 1989)