Picturing Iran
Subtitle: art, society and revolution
By: edited by Shiva Balaghi and Lynn Gumpert.
Contributors: Gumpert, Lynn.; Balaghi, Shiva.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Art, Iranian -- 20th century; Art and society -- Iran; Iran -- In art
Genres: In art
Description: "This book assesses modern Iranian visual culture from the 1960's and 1970's and suggests that modernity in Iran was a creative, complex, and contested process. It examines the expression of Iranian modernity in a variety of media including painting and sculpture, photography, posters, and graphic arts. It highlights new modes of artistic production and the expanding scene in Iran: developments in Iranian art criticism, exhibition apparatus, education, and patronage. The contributors also address changes in the iconography of Iranian art and in the increasingly social role of the artist. This groundbreaking work demonstrates that the visual arts serve as an important archival record of a critical period in Iranian history."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Reflections on the Abby Grey Collection / Lynn Gumpert; title: Iranian visual arts in "The century of machinery, speed, and the atom" : rethinking modernity / Shiva Balaghi; title: Another modernism : an Iranian perspective / by Fereshteh Daftari; title: Multiple iconographies : political posters in the Iranian revolution / Haggai Ram; title: Writing with light : Abbas's photographs of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 / Shiva Balaghi; title: The art of revolution and war : the role of the graphic arts in Iran / Peter Chelkowski.