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Elisabeth Lebovici, « Etel Adnan », Critique d’art, ID : 10.4000/critiquedart.19171
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Etel Adnan © Pikrle Jones, with courtesy of the artist Etel Adnan (1925-) paints and writes. Labels such as “poet” or “painter” do not concern people belonging to “her generation” of girls raised in Beirut, which was then under French rule. “My mother was Greek, from Smyrna (now Izmir). I grew up speaking Greek, I spoke Arabic in the street, and I learnt French, which was obligatory at the school run by nuns. My father was a Muslim Syrian, he spoke Turkish with my mother. I lost a simple and ...