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Hamid Keshmirshekan

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Description:Iranian artists have been producing some of the world's most thought-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.Contemporary Iranian Art is an unprecedented introduction to Iran's vibrant art history over the past hundred years, and features over 370 colour illustrations by the country's leading artists. It includes work by Sohrab Sepehri, Marcos Grigorian, Parviz Tanavoli, Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi, Barbad Golshiri, Farhad Moshiri, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Shadi Ghadirian, Shirin Neshat and Mitra Tabrizian.Hamid Keshmirshekan is the Barakat Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art, University of Oxford, and an art historian, art critic and Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual quarterly Art Tomorrow. He was Associate Follow at the Khalili Research Centre at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, in 2004-12, while holding a History of Art Professorship at the Advanced Art Research Institute, Iranian Academy of the Arts. He received his PhD in History of Art from SOAS, University of London, and was awarded post-doctoral fellowships by the Barakat Trust in 2004-05 and the British Academy, AHRC and ESRC in 2008, at Oxford University. His other publications includeAmidst Shadow and Light: Contemporary Iranian Art and Artists and Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art (with Hossein Amirsadeghi.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives. To get started finding Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Iranian artists have been producing some of the world's most thought-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.Contemporary Iranian Art is an unprecedented introduction to Iran's vibrant art history over the past hundred years, and features over 370 colour illustrations by the country's leading artists. It includes work by Sohrab Sepehri, Marcos Grigorian, Parviz Tanavoli, Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi, Barbad Golshiri, Farhad Moshiri, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Shadi Ghadirian, Shirin Neshat and Mitra Tabrizian.Hamid Keshmirshekan is the Barakat Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art, University of Oxford, and an art historian, art critic and Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual quarterly Art Tomorrow. He was Associate Follow at the Khalili Research Centre at the Oriental Institute, Oxford University, in 2004-12, while holding a History of Art Professorship at the Advanced Art Research Institute, Iranian Academy of the Arts. He received his PhD in History of Art from SOAS, University of London, and was awarded post-doctoral fellowships by the Barakat Trust in 2004-05 and the British Academy, AHRC and ESRC in 2008, at Oxford University. His other publications includeAmidst Shadow and Light: Contemporary Iranian Art and Artists and Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art (with Hossein Amirsadeghi.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives. To get started finding Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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