The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries : : Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary / / Hamid Keshmirshekan.
Explores and theorises the modern and contemporary art of Iran from the mid-twentieth century to the presentCritically rereads the concepts of modern and contemporary art in the context of IranDiscusses discourses such as nativism, nationalism, anti-westernism or Gharb-zadegi (Westoxification), mode...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Note on Transliteration
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Defining the Framework and Developing Conceptual Definitions
- 1 Challenging Points of Entry: Theorising ‘Modern’ and ‘Contemporary’ Art of Iran
- 2 Historiography of Modern and Contemporary Art of Iran
- Part II Discourses on Modern and Contemporary Art
- 3 The Discourse of Neo-traditionalism: Reflecting the Past into the Present
- 4 Discourses on Post-revolutionary Art: The 1980s and Early 1990s
- 5 The Paradigms of Contemporary Art: The Contemporary versus the Specific
- Part III Art Practice and Socio-cultural Discourses
- 6 The Politics of Art Practice in Contemporary Iran
- 7 Artists’ Attempts to Reclaim Cultural Space versus the State’s Cultural Prescriptions
- 8 Exhibiting Essentialism: Exoticism and its Attendant Uniformity
- 9 Humorous Art Practices: A Strategic Response to Stereotyping
- General Bibliography
- Index