Keshmirshekan Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

Essays by Hamid Dabashi
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78308-921-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

"Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" brings together the work of a theorist of modern and contemporary arts to map out more universal issues of concern to art theory and criticism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keshmirshekan, Hamid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Theory; 1.1 Récit de l’Exil Occidental; 1.2 East Is Not East; 1.3 Trauma, Memory, and History; Section 2: Visual Arts; 2.1 Artists without Borders: On Contemporary Iranian Art; 2.2 Persian Blues; 2.3 It Was in China, Late One Moonless Night; 2.4 The Gun and the Gaze: Shirin Neshat’s Photography; 2.5 Bordercrossings: Shirin Neshat’s Body of Evidence; 2.6 Shirin Neshat: Transcending the Boundaries of an Imaginative Geography; 2.7 Capturing the Illusion of Reality: Mapping the Visual Subconscious of a People in the Photography of Bahman Jalali; 2.8 Shoja Azari: Making the Homely Unhomely; 2.9 Ardeshir Mohassess, Etcetera; 2.10 Nicky Nodjoumi, Etcetera; Section 3: Cinema; 3.1 Quis Custodiet ipsos Custodes: Who Watches the Watchers?; 3.2 The Sublime and the Beautiful in the Time of Terror; 3.3 Women without Headaches; 3.4 Warriors of Faith; 3.5 The Rostamaneh Complex and Sohrab Syndrome; 3.6 Amir Naderi’s New York; 3.7 The '300' Stroke; 3.8 Tarek Al-Ghoussein Does Not Exist; 3.9 A Deadly Cinematic Subconscious; 3.10 In the Shadow of Two Monuments; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Hamid Keshmirshekan is an art historian, critic, senior teaching fellow at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts, and research associate at the London Middle East Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He has been senior lecturer and head of Art History Department at the Advanced Research Institute of Art, Iranian Academy of Arts (2013–17) and associate fellow at the Khalili Research Centre, Faculty of Oriental Studies (2004–12) as well as in the History of Art Department at Oxford University (2012–13). He received his PhD in the history of art from SOAS in 2004 and was awarded two post-doctoral fellowships by Oxford University in 2004-5 and the British Academy, AHRC and ESRC in 2008, at Oxford University. His publications include the edited volume "Contemporary Art from the Middle East: Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses" (2015) and "Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives" (2013).