Ahu Antmen


Ahu Antmen Akiska is a Turkish writer, translator, academic and columnist.

Biography

She got her degree between the years 1989-1994 at İstanbul Üniversitesi Faculty of Communications. Between the years 1994-1995, she completed her master's degree at the University of London Goldsmiths College Department of Cultural Studies. She achieved her doctorate between the years 2002-2005 at the Mimar Sinan [Fine Arts University] -Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Art History Department. She works as a professor at the Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty; She gives lectures on 20th Century Art, Art Criticism and Theory, Contemporary Art Practice and Contemporary Turkish Art. At the same time she is also on duty as a professor at the Sabancı University Art and Social Sciences Faculty. Antmen conducts research on issues such as; representations of cultural transitions, transformations and translations; use of the body as a sociopsychological tool in performance; gender inequality in art history; self, identity and gender issues in modern and contemporary art and has organized exhibitions on these issues.

Works

Books

Aloş 1957 - 2007 Retrospektif/ Zamanların Belleği - Ali Teoman Germaner'in Yaşamı ve Sanatı Aloşname: Bir Heykeltıraşın Felsefe Taşı Kimlikli Bedenler Sanat/Cinsiyet Sanat Tarihi Ve Feminist Eleştiri
  • ''20. Yüzyıl Batı Sanatında Akımlar''

Translations

Ağırbaşlı İki Hanımefendi, Jane BowlesAşk Üzerine, Alain De BottonBeyaz Küpün İçinde, Brian O'dohertyDali, Gilles NeretGauguin, İngo F. WaltherGörmek ve Fark Etmek, Alain De Bottonİngiliz Casus, Michael OndaatjeKimsenin Konuşmadığı Dil, Eugene MirabelliPablo Picasso/ Yüzyılın Dahisi, İngo F. WaltherSoluk Alma Dersleri, Anne Tyler

Compilations

İçerdeki Yabancı - Hale Tenger, Yapı Kredi PublicationsTürkiye Sanat Yıllığı 2001, Yapı Kredi Publications