Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes. Since the 1980s, political, economic, and intellectual forces have driven Iran's creative class toward increasingly original forms of artmaking not meant for official venues. Instead, these art forms appear in private homes with "trusted" audiences, derelict buildings, leftover urban zones, and remote natural sites. While many of these venues operate independently, others are fully sanctioned by the state. Drawing on interviews with over a hundred artists, gallerists, theater experts, musicians, and designers, Pamela Karimi throws into sharp relief the extraordinary art and performance activities that have received little attention outside Iran. Attending to nonconforming curatorial projects, independent guerrilla installations, escapist practices, and tacitly subversive performances, Karimi discloses the push-and-pull between the art community and the authorities, and discusses myriad instances of tentative coalition as opposed to outright partnership or uncompromising resistance. Illustrated with more than 120 full-color images, this book provides entry into unique artistic experiences without catering to voyeuristic curiosity around Iran's often-perceived "underground" culture.
Arts --- Arts, Iranian --- Dissident arts --- Political aspects --- Alternative. --- Censorship. --- Contemporary Art. --- Critical Spatial Practice. --- Ephemeral Art. --- Improvisation. --- Iran. --- Site-Specific Art. --- Subversive Art. --- Underground Culture.
Choose an application
The manuscript is a work of cultural studies, arguing that "art"--creative work in various forms--can serve to help transcend political binaries and foster identification of the political/ethnic "other." Specifically, it examines the work of Iranian women visual artists and writers living in the diaspora, including well-known figures like Marjane Satrapi and Shirin Neshat, and up-and-comers such as Amir Soltani and Parsua Bashi. Ebrahimi explores both classic and hybrid art forms, including graphic novels and photo-poetry, to advocate for the importance of aesthetics to inform and influence a global community.
Arts, Iranian --- Women artists --- Women and the arts. --- Iranian diaspora. --- Graphic novels --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- Diaspora, Iranian --- Human geography --- Iranians --- Arts and women --- Arts --- Artists, Women --- Women as artists --- Artists --- Iranian arts --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Migrations --- Satrapi, Marjane, --- Bashi, Parsua, --- Neshat, Shirin, --- Catrapi, Marjān̲ē, --- סטראפי, מרג׳אן, --- Criticism and interpretation.
Listing 1 - 2 of 2 |
Sort by
|