If Etel Adnan’s poetry and prose were characterised by their mournful evocation of her native Lebanon’s turbulent history, often seen through the eyes of an émigré, then her painting, for which she ...
Lebanese-American artist, philosopher, and poet Etel Adnan’s recent publication, Night, is in equal measure a series of meditations on intersubjectivity and spirituality, and a dialogue between prose ...
Etel Adnan, “Untitled (Mt. Tamalpais 1)” (1995–2000), oil on canvas, 35.5. x 45.5.cm (image courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg/Beirut) In the scant information we are given on the ...
Author Kaelen Wilson-Goldie reveals the radical power of abstract painter Etel Adnan’s life and work in a new book. Etel Adnan, “Untitled” (2014), Oil on canvas, 10 ½ x 13 ¾ inches (27 x 35 cm) (© ...
The daughter of a Muslim-Arab father from Damascus and an Orthodox-Greek mother from İzmir in a marriage which caused them both to be excluded from their communities, Etel Adnan has lost her life at ...
The Independent: Etel Adnan: Celebrated author who found fame as an artist later in life
For more than half a century, Etel Adnan, who has died aged 96, pursued dual vocations, writing novels, poems and essays that grappled with war and history, even as she made paintings, tapestries and ...
Etel Adnan: Celebrated author who found fame as an artist later in life
The Washington Post: Etel Adnan, celebrated writer who found late-in-life fame as a painter, dies at 96
For more than half a century, Etel Adnan pursued dual vocations, writing novels, poems and essays that grappled with war and history, even as she made paintings, tapestries and ceramic sculptures that ...