Koorosh Shishegaran : the art of altruism / edited by Hamid Keshmirshekan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shishegaran, Koorosh, 1944- artist.

Contributor:

Keshmirshekan, Hamid, editor.

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shishegaran, Koorosh, 1944-.

Shishegaran, Koorosh.

Art--Iran--Catalogs.

Art.

Iran.

Genre:

Photobooks.

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

306 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Saqi Books, 2016.

Summary:

Born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1944, Koorosh Shishegaran is considered one of the most expressive and emotive artists of the contemporary Iranian art movement. He has participated widely in solo and group exhibitions in the region and internationally. Best known for his political posters and abstract linear oil paintings, Shishegaran's work testifies to a wide array of experiments on different media and a range of approaches. With essays and contributions from leading experts in the field and featuring over three hundred plates, this collection will bring together the life and work of Shishegaran for the first time, highlighting the artist's progressive approach, which merged Persian traditional and Western modern art.

Contents:

The crowd, the truth, and the artist / Hamid Dabashi

Art without borders : the apprenticeship of Koorosh Shishegaran / David Galloway

The trajectory of Koorosh Shishegaran's artistic phases : from utopianism to aestheticism / Hamid Keshmirshekan

The infinite line : a critical analysis of Koorosh Shishegaran's modern and conceptual quests / Alireza Sami Azar

From altruism to nihilism : the art of Koorosh Shishegaran / Abbas Daneshvari.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780863561986

0863561985

OCLC:

968299745