What People Do with Images : What People Do with Images: Aesthetics, Politics and the Production of Iranian Visual Culture in Transnational Circuits.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazyar, Lotfalian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Iranian.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canon Pyon : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

Rejecting broad-brush definitions of post-revolutionary art and instead offering an insider's view on the diverse art scene in Iran and its diaspora, this book asks the question how are identity politics mediated by images within transnational socio-political spheres in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

1 - Introduction: Worlding with images

2 - The aesthetics of space: Diaspora vs. Iran, who speaks for whom?

3 - Curating Islam/Iran

4 - Autoethnography as documentary in Iranian films and videos

5 - Aesthetics and politics of contemporary Shi’ite images: A passion play in the transnational circuits

6 - Aestheticized politics, visual culture and emergent forms of digital practice

7 - Locating the Iranian underground

8 - Conclusion

Appendix; Biographies

References

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Other Format:

Print version: Mazyar, Lotfalian What People Do with Images

ISBN:

9781912385461

OCLC:

1373986289