Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes: 1948–78 Indigenous ISBN 9781550548990

ISBN 9781550548990

Associate Professor in the Department of Art History

This book will explore the rich cultural sources that Sherman plunders in creating provocative and ambiguous images that lead us to question the things we see

Scott McFarland will feature forty photographs produced over the past six years

Norman Muller

Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes: 1948–78 Indigenous ISBN 9781550548990Modern Iran and the Avant Gardes, 194878 explores how the complex cultural tensions of the nations 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