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In this new, comprehensive study, featuring 379 full-colour images, Hamid Keshmirshekan considers the dynamics at play for Iranian artists as they confront their cultural past as well as issues of contemporaneity and cultural specificity.
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 ...
Title: The cultural politics of art in Iran : modernism, exhibitions, and art production / Katrin Nahidi, Université de Genève. Description: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
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 ...
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 article focuses on Ziapour’s works and texts in light of Orphic cubist theory and highlights the beginnings of modernist art in Iran, the global entanglements of modernism, and the search for an Iranian art beyond orientalist painting traditions and exotic depictions of being the “other.”1 Ziapour’s artistic practice illustrates ...
This book deals with the exploration and theorisation of Modern and Contemporary art of Iran through the examination of art movements and artistic practices in ...
