The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran

Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production

Katrin Nahidi (Universität Graz, Austria)

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Cambridge University Press
05 June 2025

History of Art & Design Styles; Regional studies

Series: The Global Middle East

Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how artistic production and art criticism reflected upon the discourse about gharbzadegi (westoxification), the most substantial critique of Iran's adaptation of Western modernity, and ultimately proved to be a laboratory for the negotiation of an anti-colonial concept of an Iranian artistic modernity, which artists and critics envisioned as a significant other to Western colonial modernity. In this book, Katrin Nahidi revisits Iranian modernist art, aiming to explore a political and contextualized interpretation of modernism. Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, Nahidi provides a history of modernist art production since the 1950s and reveals the complex political agency underlying art historiographical processes. Offering a key contribution to postcolonial art history, Nahidi shows how Iranian artistic modernity was used to flesh out anti-colonial concepts and ideas around Iranian national identity.

By: Katrin Nahidi (Universität Graz Austria)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009361378
ISBN 10: 1009361376
Series: The Global Middle East
Pages: 301
Publication Date: 05 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Exhibitions of modern Iranian art – the construction of a secular heritage; 2. Cultural politics in Pahlavi Iran – Tmoca's architecture and the evolution of Gharbzadegi in arts and politics; 3. 'Saqqakhaneh revisited' – the art of historiographical construction of a local modernism; 4. Jalil Ziapour and the Fighting Rooster Association (Korus-e Jangi); Conclusion.

Katrin Nahidi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Graz. She has taught at the University of Graz, University of Osnabrück, and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her articles on Iranian Modernism have been published in academic journals, including kritische berichte, Stedelijk Studies, and Artl@s Bulletin.