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Contemporary Iranian Art - Hamid Keshmirshekan

Contemporary Iranian Art

New Perspectives
Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2025 | New edition
Saqi Books (Verlag)
978-0-86356-979-1 (ISBN)
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The definitive book about 20th and 21st century Iranian art renowned art historian, Hamid Keshmirshekan, the editor-in-chief of the bilingual Quarterly, Art Tomorrow, and a visiting professor at the University of Oxford. This book contains 379 full colour images, covering a broad range of artists residing both in and outside Iran.
Iranian artists have been producing some of the world’s most thought-provoking and intellectually grounded artworks.


In this landmark compendium, renowned art historian Hamid Keshmirshekan provides a thorough review of contemporary art in Iran and shows that the twentieth century was a crucial period in the country’s art and culture, when the legacies of tradition and modernism where critically reassessed.


Contemporary Iranian Art is an unprecedented introduction to Iran’s vibrant art history over the past one hundred years. This fully revised and updated edition features more than 370 colour illustrations by the country’s leading artists, including Mahmoud Bakhshi, Shadi Ghadirian, Barbad Golshiri, Marcos Grigorian, Farhad Moshiri, Shirin Neshat, Sohrab Sepehri, Mitra Tabrizian, Parviz Tanavoli and Charles Hossein Zenderoudi.

Hamid Keshmirshekan is an art historian, critic and Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts, SOAS. He was previously Senior Lecturer at the Advanced Research Institute of Art (ARIA), Iranian Academy of Arts (2013-17) and Associate Fellow at the KRC, Faculty of Oriental Studies and History of Art Department at Oxford University (2004-12). He has been Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual quarterly, Art Tomorrow. His other works include 'Amidst Shadow and Light: Contemporary Iranian Art and Artists'.

PREFACE NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION INTRODUCTION 1. MODERN CULTURE AND ITS AFFINITY WITH POLITICAL AND CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF IRAN 2. NATIONALISM AND ITS PLACE IN IRANIAN POLITICAL CULTURE 3. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND THEIR RELATION TO IRANIAN SOCIO-POLITICAL CULTURE CHAPTER 1: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1. A TRANSFORMATION IN QAJAR ART 2. THE DAR AL-FUNUN 3. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MADRASA-I SANAYI'-I MUSTAZRAFA (SCHOOL OF FINE ART) IN 1911 4. MADRASA SANAYI'-I QADIMA (SCHOOL OF TRADITIONAL ARTS) AND THE FORMATION OF THE SO-CALLED SCHOOL OF TEHRAN CHAPTER 2: DECADES OF HESITANCY AND CONFRONTATION: MODERNISM VERSUS THE STATUS QUO 1. THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ART MOVEMENT IN IRAN: THE 1940S 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERNISM DURING THE 1940S AND 1950S CHAPTER 3 QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY, NATIVISM AND NATIONALISM ALONGSIDE MODERNISM IN ART AND SOCIO-POLITICAL CULTURE: NEO-TRADITIONALIST MOVEMENTS 1. THE NATIONAL SCHOOL OF ART AND THE OBSESSION WITH IDENTITY AND CULTURAL CONCERNS: SAQQA-KHANEH; A NEO-TRADITIONALIST MOVEMENT 2. POST-SAQQA-KHANEH AND OTHER TRENDS 2.1. THE GENRE OF 'NEO-CALLIGRAPHY' 2.2. DEVELOPMENT OF MODERNISM IN THE 1970S CHAPTER 4 POST-REVOLUTIONARY ART 1. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARTISTIC CENTRE OF ISLAMIC PROPAGANDA ORGANISATION (HOWZEH-I HUNARI-I SAZMAN-I TABLIGHAT-I ISLAMI): REVOLUTIONARY ART AND ARTISTS 2. THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADITIONALIST TRENDS: CALLIGRAPHIC TENDENCIES AND MINIATURE PAINTING 3. POST-REVOLUTIONARY MODERNISM AND DISCOURSES POST-REVOLUTIONARY NATIONAL ART BIENNIALS, THE STATE AND CULTURAL POLICY: CULTURAL IDENTITY IN QUESTION CHAPTER 5: DEVELOPMENT OF POST-REVOLUTIONARY CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSES: THE MID-1990S ONWARD 1. THE EMERGENCE OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND NEW ARTISTIC DISCOURSES 2. PARADIGMS OF CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART 3. CONTEMPORANEITY VERSUS QUESTIONS OF CULTURAL SPECIFICITY CHAPTER 6: IRANIAN DIASPORIC ART BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF COLLECTIONS INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag 27.2.2025
Zusatzinfo 379 colour illustrations; 379 Illustrations
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 220 x 270 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10 0-86356-979-X / 086356979X
ISBN-13 978-0-86356-979-1 / 9780863569791
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