Performing the Iranian state : visual culture and representations of Iranian identity / edited by Staci Gem Scheiwiller.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Scheiwiller, Staci Gem, editor.
• Class of 1953 Fund.

Series:

• Anthem Middle East studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Arts and society--Iran--History--20th century.
• Arts and society--Iran--History--21st century.
• Arts, Iranian--Political aspects.
• Group identity in art.
• Group identity in the performing arts.
• Arts, Iranian.
• Arts and society.
• History.
• Iran.

Physical Description:

vi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2013.

Summary:

"Performing the State" refers to an individual (or a group of persons) who re-enacts rituals, ceremonies, customs, traditions and laws, or who dons certain guises, that either accomplish the State's goals or rebel against them as a form of critique. This anthology examines various approaches to determining the Iranian State via the performativity of persons, with the intention of illuminating how social practices, ideologies and identities are shaped, represented, visualized, circulated and repeated - not only nationally but also worldwide. Book jacket.

Contents:

• INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE STAGE / Staci Gem Scheiwiller
• THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOURCE FOR A QAJAR PAINTING / Donna Stein
• CARTOGRAPHIC DESIRES: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SHAHR-E FARANG (PEEPSHOW) AND MODERN IRAN / Staci Gem Scheiwill
• TAKKIYEH DOWLAT: THE QAJAR THEATER STATE / Babak Rahimi
• FOR THE LOVE OF HER PEOPLE: AN INTERVIEW WITH FARAH DIBA ABOUT THE PAHLAVI PROGRAMS FOR THE ARTS IN IRAN / Donna Stein
• SHAPING AND PORTRAYING IDENTITY AT THE TEHRAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (1977-2005) / Alisa Eimen
• SEISMIC SHIFTS ACROSS POLITICAL ZONES IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART: THE POETICS OF KNOWLEDGE, KNOWING AND IDENTITY / Abbas Daneshvari
• PERFORMATIVITY AND RITUAL SPACE IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY TEHRAN / David Simonowitz
• RECLAIMING CULTURAL SPACE: THE ARTIST'S PERFORMATIVITY VERSUS THE STATE'S EXPECTATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN / Hamid Keshmirshekan
• FEMALE TROUBLE: MELANCHOLIA AND ALLEGORY IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART / Andrea D. Fitzpatrick
• PERFORMING VISUAL STRATEGIES: REPRESENTATIONAL CONCEPTS OF FEMALE IRANIAN IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART / Julia Allerstorfer
• PAINTED AND ANIMATED METAPHORS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST ALIREZA DARVISH / Mina Zand Siegel and Carmen Pérez González
• IN THE HOUSE OF FATEMEH: REVISITING SHIRIN NESHAT'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES WOMEN OF ALLAH / Staci Gem Scheiwiller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

• 9780857282934
• 085728293X

OCLC:

816030648

Publisher Number:

99952439965

Online:

The Class of 1953 Fund Home Page