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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.
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 ...
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.
Iranian artists to shape a modernism of their own. At the same time, the country was politically volatile, swinging from democracy to monarchy to theocracy, with the
Building Iran is a well-articulated, invaluable account of cultural heritage and modern architecture in Pahlavi Iran that is sensitive to the politics of architectural practice.
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 chapter reviews the historiography of Iranian art during the period from the late 1940s to the 2010s, including their ideological premises, sources and discourses, the historical models they are based in, their temporal perspective, as well as their linguistic and terminological choices.
