Trauma, Memory, and History -- ReĢcit de l'Exil Occidental -- Women Without Headaches -- Artists Without Borders : On Contemporary Iranian Art -- The Gun and the Gaze : Shirin Neshat's Photography -- Bordercrossings : Shirin Neshat's Body of Evidence -- Shirin Neshat : Transcending the Boundaries of an Imaginative Geography -- Capturing the Illusion of Reality : Mapping the Visual Subconscious of a People in the Photography of Bahman Jalali -- Tarek Al-Ghoussein Does Not Exist -- Ardeshir Mohassess, Etcetera -- Shoja Azari : Making the Homely Unhomely -- Nicky Nodjoumi, Nahid Haghighat : Liberating Fragments Against Totalizing Myths -- The Sublime and the Beautiful in the Time of Terror -- Warriors of Faith -- The '300' Stroke -- Amir Naderi's New York -- A Deadly Cinematic Subconscious.
Summary:
"The volume contains the collection of essays on modern and contemporary arts by Hamid Dabashi, the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar of Middle Eastern history and culture. It reintroduces the work of one theorist of modern and contemporary arts to extrapolate more universal issues of concern to art criticism in general"-- Provided by publisher.
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