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The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary [1 ed.] 9781474488679
Table of contents : • Listed alphabetically by surname Eskandar Abadi was trained at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Tehran. In the 1980s he continued his studies in Linguistics and Political Studies at the Universities of Frankfurt and Marburg. In 1997 he obtained a PhD in General and Germanic Linguistics with a thesis on auctoriality and narrative perspective in Thomas Mann's novel Der Zauberberg. His publications include a monograph on the Wolfgang Bergsdorf's concept of power and language (Marburg 1985) and a revised version of his doctoral thesis with the titleErzaehlerprofil und Erzaehltechnik im Roman 'Der Zauberberg' - Eine Untersuchung zu Auktorialitaet und Perspektive bei Thomas Mann (1998). Besides being an academic, Eskandar Abadi is also a accomplished satirist, fiction writer for children, singer and violinist with over a dozen literary and musical publications to his name. He is currently an e • A Companion to World Literature is a far-reaching and sustained study of key authors, texts, and topics from around the world and throughout history. Six comprehensive volumes present essays from over 300 prominent international scholars focusing on many aspects of this vast and burgeoning field of literature, from its ancient origins to the most modern narratives.
Contents
List of Figures
Note on Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part inom Defining the Framework and Developing Conceptual Definitions
1 Challenging Points of Entry: Theorising ‘Modern’ and ‘Contemporary’ Art of Iran
2 Historiography of Modern and Contemporary Art of Iran
Part II Discourses on Modern and Contemporary Art
3 The Discourse of Neo-traditionalism: Reflecting the Past into the Present
4 Discourses on Post-revolutionary Art: The 1980s and Early 1990s
5 The Paradigms of Contemporary Art: The Contemporary versus the Specific
Part III Art Practice and Socio-cultural Discourses
6 The Politics of Art Practice in Contemporary Iran
7 Artists’ Attempts to Reclaim Cultural Space versus the State’s Cultural Prescriptions
8 Exhibiting Essentialism: Exoticism and its Attendant Uniformity
9 Humorous Art Practices: A Strateg Bioraphies
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