Research Catalog

Title

Siah Armajani : follow this line / edited by Clare Davies and Victoria Sung ; contributions by Nazgol Ansarinia, Jadine Collingwood, Eric Crosby, Clare Davies, Sam Durant, Barbad Golshiri, David Hodge, Valérie Mavridorakis, Slavs and Tatars, Victoria Sung, Hamed Yousefi, and Siah Armajani.

Publication

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Walker Art Center, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davies, Clare, 1980-
• Sung, Victoria, 1987-
• Armajani, Siah, 1939-2020
• Ansarinia, Nazgol
• Collingwood, Jadine
• Crosby, Eric, 1980-
• Durant, Sam, 1961-
• Golshiri, Barbad
• Hodge, David, 1986-
• Mavridorakis, Valérie
• Yousefi, Hamed
• Slavs and Tatars (Group of artists), contributor
• Walker Art Center, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution

Description

445 pages : illustrations (some color), photographs; 28 cm

Summary

In Tehran, children walking home from school would scrape their pencils against the walls, tracing their paths through the city and chanting "follow this line." Siah Armajani (born 1939) recounts that this simple gesture speaks to the desire to mark one's presence in space. 'Siah Armajani: Follow This Line' asks visitors to follow the artist across a shifting terrain, first within the context of pre-revolution Iran, and later, postwar and present-day America. Though Armajani is best known today for his works of public art--bridges, gazebos, reading rooms--located across the United States and Europe, this groundbreaking exhibition argues for a thoughtful reexamination of his studio as the site of a rich and generative practice. His works engage a range of references: from Persian calligraphy to the manifesto, letter and talisman; from poetry to mathematical equations and computer programming; from the abstract expressionist canvas to American vernacular architecture, Bauhaus design and Russian constructivism. Exhibition: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (09.09. - 30.12.2018) / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (20.02. - 02.06.2019).

Uniform Title

Siah Armajani (Walker Art Center)

Alternative Title

Follow this line

Subject

• Armajani, Siah, 1939-2020 > Exhibitions
• Armajani, Siah, 1939-2020 > Criticism and interpretation
• Armajani, Siah, 1939-2020 > Themes, motives
• Armajani, Siah, 1939-2020
• Sculpture, American > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Sculpture, American > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Sculpture, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Sculpture, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Public art > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Public art > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Male artists > Minnesota > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Male artists > Minnesota > 21st century > Exhibitions
• ART / General

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Essays.
• Illustrated works.

Note

• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and curated by Clare Davies, Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with Victoria Sung, Assistant Curator, Walker Art Center."
• Exhibition dates: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, September 9-December 30, 2018; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 20-June 2, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

An aesthetic of exile : Siah Armajani's performative practice / Clare Davies -- Profane illuminations : the early works / Hamed Yousefi -- Siah Armajani : Between zero and one / Victoria Sung -- "Imagine the Earth as a ball of twine" : Armajani's films / Eric Crosby -- Old world, odd world : Siah Armajani and American ordinary architecture / Valérie Mavridorakis -- Siah Armajani : Public art and its problems / David Hodge -- Studio works -- Public works -- Proposal for a bridge in Tehran : Landscapes / Nazgol Ansarinia -- Failing Armajani, Armajani failing / Barbad Golshiri -- Art is a schoolhouse and a tomb / Sam Durant -- Red-black thread -- Slavs and Tatars -- Manifesto : Public sculpture in the context of American democracy -- Persian period : 1955-1964 -- Notes on Dictionary for Building, 1974-1975 -- The essence of architectural space -- Notes on exile -- Contributions to Design Quarterly.

Call Number

JQF 18-1940

ISBN

• 9781935963196
• 1935963198

LCCN

2018030656

OCLC

1028804147

Title

Siah Armajani : follow this line / edited by Clare Davies and Victoria Sung ; contributions by Nazgol Ansarinia, Jadine Collingwood, Eric Crosby, Clare Davies, Sam Durant, Barbad Golshiri, David Hodge, Valérie Mavridorakis, Slavs and Tatars, Victoria Sung, Hamed Yousefi, and Siah Armajani.

Publisher

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Walker Art Center, 2018.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Event

"Siah Armajani: Follow This Line" : September 9-December 30, 2018, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

"Siah Armajani: Follow This Line" : February 20-June 2, 2019, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States.

Place of Publication

United States Minnesota Minneapolis.

Added Author

Davies, Clare, 1980- editor, curator, contributor.

Sung, Victoria, 1987- editor, curator, contributor.

Armajani, Siah, 1939-2020, artist. Works. Selections.

Ansarinia, Nazgol, contributor.

Collingwood, Jadine, contributor.

Crosby, Eric, 1980- contributor.

Durant, Sam, 1961- contributor.

Golshiri, Barbad, contributor.

Hodge, David, 1986- contributor.

Mavridorakis, Valérie, contributor.

Yousefi, Hamed, contributor.

Slavs and Tatars (Group of artists), contributor.

Walker Art Center, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1940