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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

Explores and theorises the modern and contemporary art of Iran from the mid-twentieth century to the present.

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 082, 650