Abedini, Reza
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New Visual Culture of Iran / Abedini Reza, editor ; Wolbers, Hans, editor ; Javanbakht B ; Shiva G ; Abedini R ; Delvarai H ; Shahidi Z., 2006
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Identifier: CC-46045-48753
Scope and Contents
Grady Harp, April 06 Review Amazon.com. Reza Abedini, a graphic designer and professor at Tehran University, has collected an impressive number of works of contemporary photography, graphic design, and illustration to share in this very well designed book. Large in scale and size, this book contains over 150 pages of the finest in the illustrative arts, examples of which may be new to most readers. Though all of us know and respect ancient Persian art and decor, surely some of the most complexly beautiful art ever created, the current trends absorbing the minds and talents of Iranian artists is a fascinating mixture of poetry, humanistic statements and reactions to the nearly constant states of upheaval in this seminal land. In a tightly written but informative introduction Abedini shares a succinct history of the movements in art in Iran as the country passed through three generations of artists influenced by the 1979 revolution: those artists at the peak of their creative powers...
Dates:
2006