Author : Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Publisher : Grafiche Damiani
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788862081757
This book is the first substantial survey of Farmanfarmaian's acclaimed geometric works.
Author : Monir Farmanfarmaian
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307278786
Both a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing. “Captivating.... Farmanfarmaian's sumptuously detailed recollections are a rare, insidery look at two lost worlds.” —Vogue In Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a girl to the penthouse high above New York City where she would someday live, this is the delightful and inspiring story of her life as an artist, a wife and mother, a collector, and an Iranian. Here we see a mischievous girl become a spirited woman who defies tradition.
Author : Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2018-09
Category : Art, Iranian
ISBN : 9781909792197
"'Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Sunset, Sunrise' coincides with the artist's first major solo exhibition in Ireland and Sharjah Art Foundation. With an eminent career that spans more than six decades, Farmanfarmaian (b.1924, Qazvin, Iran) is one of the most prominent contemporary Iranian artists. Between 1945 and 1957, she spent formative years as a key figure of the New York art scene, a time marked by friendships with fellow artists such as Frank Stella and Andy Warhol, before returning to Iran. She was abroad when the Islamic Revolution of 1979 broke out, effectively making her an exile until 1992. With Farmanfarmaian now in her mid-nineties and firmly re-established in her native Tehran since 2004, this long-overdue exhibition, 'Sunset, Sunrise' at IMMA and Sharjah Art Foundation, foregrounds a lexicon of over 70 works that are fundamental to the artist's magnificent artistic achievement - mirror mosaics, sculptures, drawings and tapestries. The exhibition marks the first time Farmanfarmaian's work will be shown in Ireland. The exhibition is co-curated by Rachel Thomas (Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA) and Hoor Al Qasimi (Director, Sharjah Art Foundation). The exhibition is organised by IMMA, Ireland, in collaboration with Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates. Documenting this significant exhibition, the publication includes contributions from Rahel Aima, Tina Kinsella, Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Murtaza Vali."--Back cover.
Author : Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Collage
ISBN : 9789646994539
"The 'Heartaches' series - sculptural boxes made of mixed collages and arrangements of photographs, prints and various objects - was made in New York in the Nineties. It refers to the loss of lifetime of work, personal belongings, home and memento. ...The boxes reflect an aspect of her past; the solitude, nostalgia and many travels that allowed her to discover her homeland. These are works made in exile, without her team of Iranian craftsmen and assistants. They are a personal and intimate exercise in memory, loss, grief, desire, shared moments of beauty and happiness, and finding salvation in art'--Rose Issa (Introd.).
Author : Fereshteh Daftari
Publisher : Asia Society Museum
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN :
'Iran Modern' offers a timely exploration of the cultural diversity and production of avant-garde art in Iran after World War II and up to the revolution, from 1950 through to 1979.
Author : Nader Ardalan
Publisher : Kazi Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,18 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781871031782
"Despite its extraordinary richness, Islamic architecture has rarely been studied for its conceptual and symbolic significance. In the Sense of Unity, a handsomely illustrated volume and the first extended work of its kind, Nader Ardalan and Laleh Bakhtiar examine the architecture More... of Persia as a manifestation of Islamic tradition and demonstrate the synthesis of traditional Persian thought and form. The most fundamental principle of Sufism, the inner, esoteric dimension of Islam, is that of unity in multiplicity. This view sees in every aspect of reality a reflection of a transcendent source which is given symbolic expression through all of man's activities, most directly and importantly through his works of art. The authors of The Sense of Unity show how all the elements of the Islamic architecture of Persiafrom the simplest architectural unit to a complex urban environmentare woven around this central doctrine and thus are best understood as multiple manifestations of unity. The Sense of Unity is illustrated with photographs, drawing, charts, and tables which are an integral part of its argument and which exemplify, in abundant and striking detail, the principles discussed in the text. Presenting to the Western reader for the first time the insights of the Iranian cultural tradition, the book also offers a stimulating new way of thinking about man and his relationship to his milieu." -- BOOK JACKET.
Author : New Press
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1595582053
A collection of stories and poems by contemporary writers from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and other countries the United States considers enemies that have been translated into English.
Author : Sussan Babaie
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,72 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714873527
The first and only book on one of the finest private collections of contemporary Iranian art This sumptuous volume features almost 250 contemporary artworks and a selection of medieval and early modern Islamic art - the heralded collection of Mohammed Afkhami, a prominent player at the cultural and regional front line of Middle Eastern art. Honar (meaning 'art' in Farsi, the language of Iran), includes works ranging from the disturbingly subversive to exquisitely inclusive, exhibiting the pain of exile, the querying of ideology, and the artistic insistence on personal independence.
Author :
Publisher : Institute of Contemporary Art
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,87 MB
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780997253849
Less Is a Bore is a multigenerational survey of strategies of pattern and decoration in art and design. Borrowing its ethos from Robert Venturi's retort to Mies van der Rohe's modernist edict "less is more," this exhibition includes art works that privilege decoration, patterning, and maximalism over modernism's reductive "ornament as crime" philosophy.
Author : John Curtis
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781851779291
A stunning introduction to the material culture of some of the great civilizations of Asia Iran was the home of some of the greatest civilizations of both the ancient and medieval worlds, but these achievements remain poorly known and largely misunderstood outside the country. Epic Iran tells the story of Iran from pre-Islamic through modern times and provides an opportunity to see pieces from key museum and private collections. This book combines the ancient and Islamic periods and continues the narrative into the contemporary world. It shows how civilized life emerged in Iran around 3,200 BC and how a distinctive Iranian identity formed 2,500 years ago has survived until today, expressed in the Persian language and in religious affiliations. Lavishly illustrated, some 250 images showcase pieces including goldwork, ceramics, glass, illustrated manuscripts, textiles, carpets, oil paintings, drawings, and photographs. Alongside the historical sweep are examples from contemporary artists and makers, demonstrating the rich antecedents still influencing some modern-day practitioners.
