'Iranian artists have been producing some of the world's most through-provoking and intellectually grounded artworks of our time.

In this landmark compendium, renowned art historian Hamid Keshmirshekan provides a thorough review of contemporary art in Iran. He considers the interplay between Iran's cultural past, modernism and the issue of contemporaneity, and contends that artists in Iran and in the Iranian diaspora must work with the tension between these dynamic forces. Keshmirshekan shows how the twentieth century was a crucial period in the culture and art of Iran, when the legacies of tradition and modernism were critically reassessed. he argues that the concerns of this period for Iranian artists were indivisible from the ideological ones, and that they exert influence into the present day.' - excerpted from flapped page.

Including a bibliography and an index.
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Onsite

Location code
REF.KEA
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

352

ISBN / ISSN

9780863567216

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction

Modern Culture and its Affinity with Political and Cultural Characteristics of Iran

Nationalism and its Place in Iranian Political Culture

Religious Movements and their Relation to Iranian Sociopolitical Culture

Chapter One: Historical Background

A Transformation in Qatar Art

The Dar al-Funun

The Establishment of the Madrasa-i Sanayi'-i Mustazrafa (School of Fine Art) in 1911

Madrasa-i Sanayi'-i Qadima (School of Traditional Arts) and the formation of the so-called School of Tehran

Chapter Two: Decades of Hesitancy and Confrontation: Modernism Versus the Status Quo

The Beginning of the Modern Art Movement in Iran: the 1940s

The Development of Modernism During the 1940s and 1950s

Chapter Three: Questions of Identity, Nativism and Nationalism Alongside Modernism in Art and Sociopolitical Culture: Neo-Traditionalist Movements

The National School of Art and the Obsession with Identity and Culture Concerns: Saqqa-khaneh; a Neo-Traditionalist Movement

Post Saqqa-khaneh and Other Trends

Chapter Four: Post-revolutionary Art

The Establishment of the Artistic Centre of Islamic Propaganda Organisation (Howzeh-i hunari-i sazman-i tablighat-i islami): Revolutionary Art and Others

The Development of Traditionalist Trends: Calligraphic Tendencies and Miniature Painting

Post-revolutionary Modernism and Discourse: Post-revolutionary National Art Biennials, the State and Cultural Policy: Cultural Identity in Question

Chapter Five: Development of Post-Revolutionary Contemporary Discourses: the Mid-1990s Onward

The Emergence of Contemporary Art and New Artistic Discourses

Paradigms of Contemporary Iranian Art

Contemporaneity Versus Questions of Cultural Specificity

Chapter Six: Iranian Diasporic Art

Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives
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Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives