Rebel, jester, mystic, poet : contemporary Persians / Fereshteh Daftari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daftari, Fereshteh, author.

Contributor:

Karimi-Hakkak, Ahmad, writer of added commentary.

Aga Khan Museum (Toronto, Ont.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Iranian--21st century--Exhibitions.

Art, Iranian.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Black Dog Publishing, [2017]

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.

Contents:

Rebel, jester, mystic, poet : contemporary Persians / Fereshteh Daftari

Artistic creativity and the art of subterfuge / Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Works from the Mohammed Afkhami collection

Artists' biographies.

Notes:

"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.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1911164317

9781911164319

9781926473086

1926473086

OCLC:

973377962