Contemporary Turkish Women Artists
Tomur Atagök
Yildiz Technical University
office @m2.org
In the course of globalisation and given
our present standpoint between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
eveything is subject to re-evaluation and change. Both contemporary issues
and universal value systems have forced re-examination of our ideas at
a time when questions about the center and peripheries, the local as opposed
to the universal, East and West, part and whole are being raised. Within
the context of culture and an opening of its borders and disciplines, creative
process, and conditions as well as the politics that shape it, are biringing
to our attention the work of non-western participants both minorities and
the once-silent majorities. The reassesment of the issues around artis