He suggests studying the role of violence through history instead or analysing why the knife-carrying Baroque painter Caravaggio is still valued as anartist despite his frequent brawling.
But now an exhibition at London's Tate Modern aims to demonstrate that she was an important figure in thehistoryof modernism perhaps the first abstract modern artist in Lebanon and even the Arab world.
"More than your typical art show, it really looked more like a farmer's market, " says video artist Zhang Peili, recalling the opening ofan exhibition that was bound for history even before it was installed.