Rethinking the Contemporary Art of Iran

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This book offers a rich visual and analytical account of artistic practices in Iran and its diaspora during the last three decades. The book Rethinking the Contemporary Art of Iran involves an extensive range of artists working in a variety of media, with more attention paid to the younger generation who have been under-represented in recent publications and those whose work signifies the contemporary. The book includes three comprehensive essays which frame "contemporary" Iranian art, contextualising the visual materials collected in the subsequent sections. The texts offer multiple perspectives on contemporaneity, plurality, and history together with extensive ideas about contemporary art practices in Iran and its diaspora. They are followed by sections on individual artists including more tham 450 colour images. Each section is accompanied by texts commenting on the artists' oeuvre as a whole and the single works appearing on the pages. The volume ends with the artists' biographies, a general bibliography, and an index.

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Hamid Keshmirshekan is an art historian, art critic and Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Arts, SOAS, University of London.Since 1994 he has taught art history and theory in British and Iranian universities, has organised several international conferences and events on aspects of modern and contemporary art of Iran and the Middle East, and has contributed extensively to various publications.