Anneka Lenssen

Anneka Lenssen

Berkeley Book Chats

In her study of Arab modernism, Anneka Lenssen (History of Art, UC Berkeley) explores how artists in Syria developed strikingly new kinds of painting as a means to agitate against the imposed identities and intersubjective relations that accompanied the making of Syria as a contested territory in her book, Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria.

Lenssen is joined by Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art).