Title & Author:

Modern Iran and the avant-gardes, 1948-78 / edited by Pantea Haghighi.

Publication:

Vancouver : Vancouver Art Gallery ; Munich : Hirmer, [2025]
©2025

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm

Notes:
Featured artists include: Hossein Amanat, Massoud Arabshahi, Siah Armajani, Iran Darroudi, Kamran Diba, Seyed Mohammad Ehsaey, Parvaneh Etemadi, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian, Mansour Ghandriz, Marcos Grigorian, Nahid Hagigat, Farideh Lashai, Reza Mafi, Leyly Matine-Daftary, Sirak Melkonian, Ardeshir Mohasses, Bahman Mohasses, Nicky Nodjoumi, Ruyin Pakbaz, Faramarz Pilaram, Behjat Sadr, Abolghassem Saidi, Sohrab Sepehri, Masoumeh Seyhoun, Houshang Seyhoun, Jazeh Tabatabai, Parviz Tanavoli, Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam, Hossein Zenderoudi, and Jalil Ziapour.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Vancouver Art Gallery, December 11, 2026-May 2, 2027.
Includes bibliographical references.
Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 1948-78 / Pantea Haghighi -- Threads of bronze and verse : Parviz Tanavoli in conversation with Davood Madadpoor -- Iranian women : tackling modernism one sensibility at a time / Fereshteh Daftari -- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Whispering inks, silent verses : seyed Mohammad Ehsaey in conversation with Davood Madadpoor -- Sirak Melkonian - a conversation that never was / Davood Madadpoor -- The architecture, poetry, and art complex in Iranian modernism / Jeff Derksen -- Shahyad has many stories to tell : Hossein Amanat in conversation with Davood Madadpoor -- Visual modernization in Iran / Ali Bakhtiari.

Summary:

"Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 1948-78 explores how the complex cultural tensions of the nation's period between 1948 and 1978 led to artistic innovation. As Iran became modern, modernism became distinctly Iranian. Iranian artists created a unique form of modernism that addressed the tension between commitments to innovate and an engagement with traditional Iranian ideas and cultural forms. Heavily illustrated, this publication features thirty artists who worked during the pivotal modernism period and practiced in a range of media from painting and sculpture to printmaking, drawing, and architecture. Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Pantea Haghighi that surveys the range of artistic and political influences on the emergence of Iranian modernisms and a selection of focused essays by scholars and curators Fereshteh Daftari, Davood Madadpoor, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Ali Bakhtiari, Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 1948-78 is a timely addition to the scholarship on both alternate modernisms and the history of Iranian art." -- taken from Amazon

ISBN:

3777444766 (hardbound)
9783777444765 (hardbound)

Subject:

Art, Iranian 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Iranian 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Iran Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Iran.
Art iranien 20e siècle.
Art iranien 20e siècle Expositions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Art, Iranian.
Iran.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Haghighi, Pantea, editor, contributor.
Daftari, Fereshteh, contributor.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich, contributor.
Madadpoor, Davood, 1981- contributor, interviewer.
Derksen, Jeff, 1958- contributor.
Bakhtiari, Ali, contributor.
Tanavoli, Parviz, interviewee, artist.
Iḥsāʼī, Muḥammad, 1939- interviewee, artist.
Amanat, Hossein, 1942- interviewee, architect.
Vancouver Art Gallery, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 326143
Call No.: 326143
Copy: 1
Status: Available