Contemporary Iranian Art by Hamid Keshmirshekan

Price: 148.06 AED

Publisher: Saqi Books 

Year of Publication: 2025

ISBN: 9780863569791

About the Book

Iranian artists have been producing some of the world’s most thought-provoking and intellectually grounded artworks.

In this landmark compendium, renowned art historian Hamid Keshmirshekan provides a thorough review of contemporary art in Iran and shows that the twentieth century was a crucial period in the country’s art and culture, when the legacies of tradition and modernism were critically reassessed.

Contemporary Iranian Art is an unprecedented introduction to Iran’s vibrant art history over the past one hundred years. This fully revised and updated edition features works from the country’s leading artists, including Mahmoud Bakhshi, Shadi Ghadirian, Barbad Golshiri, Marcos Grigorian, Farhad Moshiri, Shirin Neshat, Sohrab Sepehri, Mitra Tabrizian, Parviz Tanavoli and Charles Hossein Zenderoudi.

About the Author

Hamid Keshmirshekan is Senior Teaching Fellow at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London, and Senior Research Fellow at the Khalili Research Centre (KRC), Oxford University. He was previously a senior lecturer at the Advanced Research Institute of Art, Iranian Academy of Arts, an associate fellow at the KRC at Oxford University, and Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual (English Persian) quarterly, Art Tomorrow. His publications include Koorosh Shishegaran: The Art of Altruism (2016), Contemporary Art from the Middle East: Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses (ed.) (2015), and Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives (2013).