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Rebel, jester, mystic, poet : contemporary Persians
- Title
- Rebel, jester, mystic, poet : contemporary Persians / Fereshteh Daftari.
- Author
- Daftari, Fereshteh
- Publication
- London : Black Dog Publishing, [2017]
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 17-1024 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Ont.)
- Description
- 159 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
- Summary
- Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet' tells the story of the evolution of Iranian contemporary art by examining the work of 30 artists.This is art where the ills of internal politics remain astutely masked below a layer of ornamentation, poetry, or humor. What unites the disparate works into a coherent theme is the artists coping mechanisms, which consist of subversive critique, quiet rebellion, humor, mysticism, and poetryhence the publications title. The subtitle 'Contemporary Persians' is also a reference to a strategy of survival, this one used by Iranians in the United States during the early 2000s; at a time when Iranians were identified with hostage takers and terrorists, they adopted the identity Persians, which remained free of such associations. Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet brings together the work of a number of well-known artists, including Afruz Amighi, whose work is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Monir Farmanfarmaian, who received a major exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in 2015, amongst many others, Shiva Ahmadi, Shirin Aliabadi, Mahmoud Bakhshi, Shadi Ghadirian, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Shirazeh Houshiary, Farhad Moshiri, Parviz Tanavoli.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Note
- "Works from the Mohammed Afkhami Collection exhibited at the Aga Khan Museum."
- Published in conjunction with the title exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum February 4-June 4, 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JQF 17-1024
- ISBN
- 1911164317
- 9781911164319
- OCLC
- 973377962
- Author
- Daftari, Fereshteh, author.
- Title
- Rebel, jester, mystic, poet : contemporary Persians / Fereshteh Daftari.
- Publisher
- London : Black Dog Publishing, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Ont.)
- Research Call Number
- JQF 17-1024