Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Hamid Keshmirshekan, University of London) Keshmirshekan, Hamid (Art historian, Art critic and Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts, SOAS

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Explores and theorises the modern and contemporary art of Iran from the mid-twentieth century to the presentCritically rereads the concepts of modern and contemporary art in the context of IranDiscusses discourses such as nativism, nationalism, anti-westernism or Gharb-zadegi (Westoxification), modernism, secularism, Islamicism, identity versus cultural globalisation, cultural essentialism, global market demands and exoticismLooks at the representation of these discourses in art and artistic movements such as Saqq?-kh?neh, revolutionary art and diasporic art or artistic strategies such as humour, criticism of cultural past, deconstructive and subversive language, etc.Shows how globalisation and its attendant cultural transformations and alternative visions of cultural particularities have emerged as new themes for Iranian artistsBased on primary sources including interviews with artists, curators, art critics and cultural activists from a range of disciplinary media such as painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance, installation, and participatory projectsExamines how political events such as the 1979 Revolution, its aftermaths and the so-called Reform period (1997-2005) impacted cultural and artistic modes in Iran 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 relation to other cultural, social and political discourses during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It focuses on discourses and their impact on art movements and practices and aims to selectively explore certain prevailing debates in action during this time. To come to grips with the way that artistic trends in Iran can be traced within the intellectual and political landscape of the country mainly from the 1940s to the present, Keshmirshekan articulates new ideas for relating art to its wider context whether social, cultural or political and to bring together critical and historical evidence in order to provide an insight into current artistic concerns. The book explores these underlying themes and discourses through a series of case studies, including through close scrutiny of works of artists.?

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-29
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt878 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Antal sidor320
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474488648

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Hamid Keshmirshekan is an art historian, art critic and Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts, SOAS, University of London and Research Associate/Barakat Senior Scholar at the Khalili Research Centre, Oxford University. He was previously Senior Lecturer and head of History of Art department at the Advanced Research Institute of Art (ARIA), Iranian Academy of Arts (2013-17), Research Associate at the London Middle East Institute (2013-2019), Associate Fellow at the Faculty of Oriental Studies and History of Art Department at Oxford University (2004-12) and Chief Editor of the quarterly Art Tomorrow – the bilingual (English-Persian) journal on modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and its diaspora (2009-13). He received his PhD in History of Art from SOAS, University of London in 2004 and was post-doctoral fellow at KRC, Oxford University (2004-5, 2011-13) and the British Academy, AHRC and ESRC (2008-9). Since 1994 he has taught art history and theory in British and Iranian universities, has organised several international conferences and events on aspects of modern and contemporary art of Iran and the Middle East, has acted as a keynote speaker in museums and academic conferences, has curated a number of contemporary art exhibitions and has contributed extensively to various publications. His latest publications include Humorous Art Practices in the Contemporary Middle East: Reacting to Cultural Stereotyping, (forthcoming-2022),Cultural Essentialism in the Context of Neo-Orientalism: The Exposure of Contemporary Art Practices from the Middle East (2019), Kankashi dar Hunar-i mu’asir-i iran (Contemporary Iranian Art), 2nd edition (2017), Contemporary Art from the Middle East: Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses (ed.) (2015).

List of Figures Note on Transliteration Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Defining the Framework and Developing Conceptual Definitions1 Challenging Points of Entry: Theorising ‘Modern’ and ‘Contemporary’ Art of Iran 2 Historiography of Modern and Contemporary Art of Iran Part II Discourses on Modern and Contemporary Art3 The Discourse of Neo-traditionalism: Reflecting the Past into the Present 4 Discourses on Post-revolutionary Art: The 1980s and Early 1990s 5 The Paradigms of Contemporary Art: The Contemporary versus the Specific Part III Art Practice and Socio-cultural Discourses6 The Politics of Art Practice in Contemporary Iran 7 Artists’ Attempts to Reclaim Cultural Space versus the State’s Cultural Prescriptions 8 Exhibiting Essentialism: Exoticism and its Attendant Uniformity 9 Humorous Art Practices: A Strategic Response to Stereotyping General Bibliography Index