Modern Iran and the Avant-gardes

Heavily illustrated, this publication features 30 artists who worked during the pivotal period between 1948 and 1978, 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 and Hans Ulrich Obrist, 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.

Featured Artists: Hossein Amanat, Massoud Arabshahi, Siah Armajani, Iran Darroudi, Kamran Diba, Seyed Mohammad Ehsaey, Parvaneh Etemadi, Abdol-Aziz Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy 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, Houshang Seyhoun, Masoumeh Seyhoun, Jazeh Tabatabai, Parviz Tanavoli, Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam, Hossein Zenderoudi, Jalil Ziapour