TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keshmirshekan,Hamid
TI  - The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary
T2  - Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World Series
SN  - 9781474488679
AV  - N7285 .K47 2023
U1  - 709.550904 23/eng/20230802
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Art, Iranian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Defining the Framework and Developing Conceptual Definitions -- 1 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 Art -- 3 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 Discourses -- 6 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
N2  - Explores and theorises the modern and contemporary art of Iran from the mid-twentieth century to the present
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