Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives
From Saqqakhaneh through the rupture of 1979 to the Tehran scene now, a survey that goes around the political narrative and arrives at the country anyway.
A survey of Iranian art from the mid-twentieth century onward, covering the Saqqakhaneh movement, the rupture of 1979, the diaspora and the contemporary Tehran scene. It offers a route into modern Iran that goes around the standard political narrative, and makes the case that the work has become more original since the revolution rather than less.
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Tyler Cowen
I get tired of reading through the same old histories of Persia/Iran, and how they tell the same old tales of the rise and fall of the Shah, etc. So how else might you try to understand contemporary Iran better? Books like this are a very good place to start, plus they are fun to page through.
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