Performing the Iranian state : visual culture and representations of Iranian identity /: visual culture and representations of Iranian identity. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Staci Gem Scheiwiller.
• Editors: Scheiwiller, Staci Gem
• Contents: INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE STAGE / Staci Gem Scheiwiller -- THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOURCE FOR A QAJAR PAINTING / Donna Stein -- CARTOGRAPHIC DESIRES: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE SHAHR-E FARANG (PEEPSHOW) AND MODERN IRAN / Staci Gem Scheiwill -- TAKKIYEH DOWLAT: THE QAJAR THEATER STATE / Babak Rahimi -- FOR THE LOVE OF HER PEOPLE: AN INTERVIEW WITH FARAH DIBA ABOUT THE PAHLAVI PROGRAMS FOR THE ARTS IN IRAN / Donna Stein -- SHAPING AND PORTRAYING IDENTITY AT THE TEHRAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (1977-2005) / Alisa Eimen -- SEISMIC SHIFTS ACROSS POLITICAL ZONES IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART: THE POETICS OF KNOWLEDGE, KNOWING AND IDENTITY / Abbas Daneshvari -- PERFORMATIVITY AND RITUAL SPACE IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY TEHRAN / David Simonowitz -- RECLAIMING CULTURAL SPACE: THE ARTIST'S PERFORMATIVITY VERSUS THE STATE'S EXPECTATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY IRAN / Hamid Keshmirshekan -- FEMALE TROUBLE: MELANCHOLIA AND ALLEGORY IN CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ART / Andrea D. Fitzpatrick -- PERFORMING VISUAL STRATEGIES: REPRESENTATIONAL CONCEPTS OF FEMALE IRANIAN IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART / Julia Allerstorfer -- PAINTED AND ANIMATED METAPHORS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST ALIREZA DARVISH / Mina Zand Siegel and Carmen Pérez González -- IN THE HOUSE OF FATEMEH: REVISITING SHIRIN NESHAT'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES WOMEN OF ALLAH / Staci Gem Scheiwiller.
• Publisher Details: London, UK New York, NY : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 700.1/030955; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Arts and society -- Iran -- History -- 20th century; Arts and society -- Iran -- History -- 21st century; Arts, Iranian -- Political aspects; Group identity in art; Group identity in the performing arts; ART -- Performance; ART -- Reference; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857282941; 0857282948
• Related ISBNs: 9780857282934; 085728293X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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