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Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (29 x 25 cm). In English and Turkish. 203 p., color and b/w ills. Women, painting, stories. Transformation of the image of "woman" in Turkish painting in the modernization era.= Kadinlar, resimler, öyküler. Modernlesme sürecindeki Türk resminde "kadin" imgesinin dönüsümü. [Exhibition catalogue]. Art history, one of the liveliest and most exciting branches of knowledge of our times, emphasizes the need to continually re-examine, re-evaluate and re-interpret its primary ingredient - art works of the past. From fresh perspectives in the light of current information, thought and theory about these works, the discourse of knowledge that surrounds a work of art and is continually adapted. Women, Paintings, Stories / Transformation of the image of 'women' in Turkish painting in the modernization era is the product of just such an inclination and re-interpretation. In this exhibition of more than fifty works chosen from a variety of public institutions and private collections spanning the era from the Mesrutiyet / Second Constitution through the Republic, a voyage through the years was embarked upon, during which, the Turkish art of painting underwent a movement towards contemporaneity, within the framework of an exceptional and extremely meaningful theme, a reinterpretation of the transformation of the image of 'women'.