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This paper will delve into the history of art in Iran in order to analyze the authenticity of artistic development from early times. I will argue that Iranian Modern Art sprang from a modernity unique to Iran and that this art was an innovative manifestation of Iranian history, culture, and values.
moderniza-tion as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how artistic production and art criticism reûected upon the discourse about gharbzadegi (westox-iûcation), the most substantial critique of Iran’s adaptation of Western modernity, and ultimately proved to be a laboratory for the negotiation of an anti-colonial concept of an Iranian arti...
this study seeks to revisit modernist Iranian art production to explore a more political and contextualized interpretation of modernism in Iran. A theoretical framework rooted in postcolonial critique and inter-woven with iconographic analysis will help dismantle imperial notions of modernity and has the potential to decolonize modernist ...
The development of modernism in the art of Iran was fuelled by the rapid modernisation processes occurring in other areas of Iranian life, specifically the country’s socio-political culture during the 1940s.
This paper will delve into the history of art in Iran in order to analyze the authenticity of artistic development from early times. I will argue that Iranian Modern Art sprang from a modernity unique to Iran and that this art was an innovative manifestation of Iranian history, culture, and values.
This paper will delve into the history of art in Iran in order to analyze the authenticity of artistic development from early times. I will argue that Iranian Modern Art sprang from a modernity unique to Iran and that this art was an innovative manifestation of Iranian history, culture, and values.
The modern art movement in Iran had its genesis in the late 1940s and early ’50s. Politically, these were the years that saw the abdication of Reza Shah and increased contact with the West. Artistically, this was the period after the death of painter Kamal al-Mulk (1852–1940) and thus symbolically the end of a rigid adherence to academic ...
