The Abject: The Menstruant, Impurity and Purity in Feminist-Jewish Art

David Sperber

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Sigalit Landau

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David Sperber is an art critic and independent curator. He has written about and curated many exhibitions at the Lieber Center at Bar Ilan University. Sperber's articles have appeared in numerous publications including academic periodicals, museum exhibition catalogs and in popular media. He regularly writes in the online magazine Erev Rav and other online venues. In 2012 he will co-curate, with the Jewish art curator Devora Liss, an international exhibition of Jewish Feminist Art at the Ein Harod Museum in Israel.

On the Sensual in Art, October 2011