Parastou Forouhar : art, life and death in Iran / edited by Rose Issa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Furūhar, Parastū.

Contributor:

Issa, Rose.

Leighton House (London, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Furūhar, Parastū--Exhibitions.

Furūhar, Parastū.

Artists--Iran--20th century--Exhibitions.

Artists.

Iran.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

127 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Art, life and death in Iran

Place of Publication:

London ; Saint Paul, Minn. : Saqi Books, 2010.

Summary:

This publication presents a selection of her most startling work so far, created in response to the dramatic social and political upheaval that she experienced after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the murder of her parents in Tehran. Though the inspiration behind Forouhar's subject matter may be tragic, her work has a great emotional range: the results are sometimes macabre, occasionally darkly humorous and often purely joyful. Published to coincide with artist's first solo show in the UK at Leighton House Museum, London, in October 2010, this is the first English-language monograph of her work. The Artist's work is in the permanent collections of The Queensland Art Museum, Queensland; Belvedere, Vienna; Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe; Musem of Modern Art, Frankfurt; and the Deutsche Bank Art Collection. Rose Issa provides a forword and there are essays by the curator and film-maker Lutz Becker and the author and art critic Russell Harris. -- Publication description.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Leighton House Museum, London.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-127).

ISBN:

9780863564482

0863564488

OCLC:

671711321