Translation and Transgression in the Art of Shirin Neshat
Author: Erin C. Devine
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Published: 2023-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781003341192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Erin C. Devine
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Published: 2023-10
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ISBN-13: 9781003341192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Erin C. Devine
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-09-29
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1000998711
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Precisely 30 years after the debut of her provocative photo-portraits, this book chronicles the early career of Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. In its first 20 years, Neshat’s work weaved viewers into complex readings of women and power in Iran. Yet her images also drew criticisms of exoticizing Muslim women, and later video installations were accused of lacking political assertion during stormy relations between the West and the Islamic world. Now broadly recognized as a social justice artist, this volume chronicles Neshat’s evolution from photography to film, from personal to political expression, and expands existing scholarship to investigate underserved contexts for her work, including the cinematic turn and emergent theories of globality in contemporary art. Neshat’s hyphenated identity was often attenuated by reductive and exoticizing discourses; therefore, this volume draws attention to her transnational methodologies, informed by strategies of appropriation, performativity, and embodiment while articulating Persian visual and literary traditions. Complicating simplistic ethnographies, her disruption of neo-Orientalist paradigms and representations has led audiences to reconsider Islamophobic, Islamism, and gender repressions that are political, psychological, and above all cross-cultural. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, photography, cinema studies, performance, transnational and global studies, women’s studies, and Iranian studies.
Author: Matthew Reynolds
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-03-07
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1040028608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first scholarly monograph devoted exclusively to this vital work of contemporary public art, this book examines Maya Lin’s Confluence Project through the lens of environmental humanities and Indigenous studies. Matthew Reynolds provides a detailed analysis of each earthwork, along with a discussion of the proposed final project at Celilo Falls near The Dalles, Oregon. The book assesses the artist’s longtime engagement with the region of the Pacific Northwest and explores the Confluence Project within Lin’s larger oeuvre. Several consistent themes and experiences are common amongst all the sites. These include an emphasis on individual, multisensory encounters with the earthworks and their surrounding contexts; sound as an experiential dimension of landscape; indexical accounts of the multicultural, multispecies histories of each place; and an evocation of loss. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, environmental studies, environmental humanities, and Native American studies.
Author: Shirin Neshat
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2024-02-06
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 069125463X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A collection of quotations from the influential contemporary Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat"--
Author: Steven Henry Madoff
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1588345092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Shirin Neshat: Facing History, organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian institution, Wahington DC May18- September 20, 2015"--Title page verso.
Author: Sanaz Fotouhi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9004357017
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seen and Unseen explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that create limited perspectives of issues and groups, specific to this volume, the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and explores alternative and challenging representations that are reconstructing existing belief systems.
Author: Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9789608349377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shirin Neshat
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In her profoundly beautiful films Shirin Neshat raises the most pressing converns and predicaments of humanity: the conflict between madness and civilization, freedom and constraint, order and change, inhibition and release, despair and rage. This book documents the visusal, philisophical, and moral complexity of her uncompromising artistic quest."--Back cover.
Author: Shirin Neshat
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788881588060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Women Without Men" is renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat's feature-film debut. Its exquisitely crafted view of the artist's native Iran during its tumultuous British and American-backed coup d'état in 1953 won Neshat the Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival. Adapted from the novel by Iranian author Shahrnush Parsipur, the film draws together the initially separate stories of five female characters during those traumatic days. With a camera that floats sedately through the lives of the women and the countryside of Iran, Neshat explores the political and psychological dimensions of her characters as they converge in a metaphorical orchard. This volume unites stills from the series of five video installations that originated the film with photographs and texts by critic Eleanor Heartney, Parsipur and the artist.