The drawings in this book provide superb examples of Halaby's skill and artistry at figurative drawing. The emotions of anger and fear spring out of the pages and enable the viewer to relive the terrible suffering endured by the inhabitants of this small Palestinian village that found itself inside the border of the newly established Israeli state in 1949.
Born in Jerusalem in 1936, Samia Halaby is a leading abstract painter and an influential scholar of Palestinian art. Influenced by the Soviet avant-garde, Halaby works with the conviction that Abstraction is based in reality, and has not been sufficiently explored. Her work has been collected by international institutions since the 1970's, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art (New York and Abu Dhabi); Yale University Art Gallery; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Institute du monde arabe; and the British Museum.
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