Translation and transgression in the art of Shirin Neshat / Erin C. Devine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devine, Erin C., author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge focus on art history and visual studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neshat, Shirin, 1957---Criticism and interpretation.

Neshat, Shirin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

"Precisely thirty years after the debut of her provocative photo-portraits, this book chronicles the early career of Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. In its first twenty years, Neshat's work weaved viewers into complex readings of women and power in Iran. Yet her images also drew criticisms of exoticizing Muslim women, and later video installations were accused of lacking political assertion during stormy relations between the West and the Islamic world. Now broadly recognized as a social justice artist, this volume chronicles Neshat's evolution from photography to film, from personal to political expression, and expands existing scholarship to investigate underserved contexts for her work, including the cinematic turn and emergent theories of globality in contemporary art. Neshat's hyphenated identity was often attenuated by reductive and exoticizing discourses; therefore, this volume draws attention to her transnational methodologies, informed by strategies of appropriation, performativity, and embodiment while articulating Persian visual and literary traditions. Complicating simplistic ethnographies, her disruption of neo-Orientalist paradigms and representations has led audiences to reconsider Islamophobia, Islamism, and gender repressions that are political, psychological, and above all cross-cultural. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, photography, cinema studies, performance, transnational and global studies, women's studies, and Iranian studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Biography/History:

Erin Devine is an artist and writer based in Washington, DC and Cologne, Germany. She exhibits installation and performance-based works internationally, contributes criticism to multiple publications, curates exhibitions for spaces in the DC area, and is a Professor of Art History at Northern Virginia Community College.

Notes:

"Routledge focus."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 09, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Devine, Erin C. Translation and transgression in the art of Shirin Neshat

ISBN:

9781003341192

1003341195

9781000998672

1000998673

9781000998719

1000998711

Publisher Number:

40032013406

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