In the fields of empty days
Subtitle: the intersection of past and present in Iranian art
By: Linda Komaroff ; with additional contributions by Sheila R. Canby, Sheida Dayani, Hamid Keshmirshekan, Hani Khafipour, Vali Mahlouji, Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shadi Shafiei, and Sandra Williams
Contributors: Wrightson, Erica, editor; Crighton, Claire, editor; Canby, Sheila R., contributor; Dayani, Sheida, contributor; Keshmirshekan, Hamid, contributor; Khafipour, Hani, contributor; Mahlouji, Vali, contributor; Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shabnam, contributor; Shafiei, Shadi, contributor; Williams, Sandra (Curator), contributor; Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783791357386
Subjects: Art and history; Iranian Art; Exhibitions; History
Other titles: Fields empty days
Description: Filled with vibrant examples of painting, photography, sculpture, video, and other media, this book reveals how Iran's leading artists weave the country's past into the fabric of its contemporary art. The catalogue includes essays written by Linda Komaroff, curator of Islamic art and department head of Art of the Middle East at LACMA, and contributions from Sheila R. Canby, Sheida Dayani, Hamid Keshmirshekan, Hani Khafipour, Vali Mahlouji, Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shadi Shafiei, and Sandra Williams. The book also explores how pre-Modern artists first began to manipulate time by visually shifting the past into the present as demonstrated by Persian miniature painting, in particular illustrated versions of the Shahnama, or Book of Kings, the Iranian national epic. Statements from prominent contemporary artists consider the creative means by which they evoke the past to address present-day social and political concerns. Designed to promote fluid movement between the historical and the modern, this wide-ranging book offers a unique and important exploration of a country with a rich and complicated heritage.
Notes: Book is split in two sections, with second section's paging right to left.

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'In The Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art' at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 6-September 9, 2018"--Colophon.

Includes the poem "The Ending of the Shahnama" by Mehdi Akhavan-e Sales, translated by Sorour Soroudi, in both English translation and original Arabic script.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-83).

Text in English. Contains an Arabic script original version of the corresponding translated poem in English.
Table of contents: title: Time and again : the intersection of past and present Iranian art / Linda Komaroff; title: The theatrical roots of contemporary visual arts in Iran / Sheida Dayani; title: Ideology and photography in nineteenth-century Iran / Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan; title: The anachronistic role of Safavid manuscript illustrations / Sheila R. Canby; title: Heroism in contemporary Iranian art / Sandra Williams; title: The fantastical polaroids of Kaveh Golestan / Vali Mahlouji; title: Reflecting the past into the present versus constructive specificity in modern and contemporary art in Iran / Hamid Keshmirshekan; title: Tattoo culture of the Zurkhana / Shadi Shafiei; title: Siamak Filizadeh's Underground / Linda Komaroff; title: Echoes of the Safavid past / Hani Khafipour.