The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran

ISBN-13: 9781009361408 / Twarda / 2023

Katrin (Universite de Geneve) Nahidi

Opis

Offers a comprehensive study of Iranian modernist art since the 1950s, showing its role in shaping ideas around national identity and anti-colonialism.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Exhibitions of modern Iranian art – the construction of a secular heritage; 2. Cultural politics in Pahlavi Iran – Tmoca's architecture and the evolution of Gharbzadegi in arts and politics; 3. 'Saqqakhaneh revisited' – the art of historiographical construction of a local modernism; 4. Jalil Ziapour and the Fighting Rooster Association (Korus-e Jangi); Conclusion.