Anneka Lenssen
Anneka Lenssen is a scholar of modern art who works on painting and visual culture in the Middle East, based at UC Berkeley. Her research covers avant-garde painting and politics, with a focus on Syria. She is the author of Beautiful Agitation (UC Press, 2020), which won the 2021 Syrian Studies Association Best Book Prize. She was a 2011 resident at Darat al Funun in Amman, where she gave a talk on Surrealism in Arab modern art.
Books
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Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria
2020 · University of California Press
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Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (co-editor, with Nada Shabout and Sarah Rogers)
2018 · The Museum of Modern Art
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