Secil Yilmaz on “Painting the Peasant in Modern Turkey, 1938-1943”

Secil Yilmaz, History PhD Candidate, has a recent podcast now available Ottoman History Podcast blog. It’s about the goals and impacts of a state project that sent dozens of Turkish painters to the Anatolian countryside during the World War II period. The summary of the podcast also appeared on Jadaliyya.

Here are the links:

http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2010/07/art-painting-turkey-anatolia.html

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/13083/painting-the-peasant-in-modern-turkey