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" Displacement, Belonging, Photography: Gender and Iranian Identity in Shirin Neshat's 'The Women of Allah' (1993–7) and 'The Book of Kings' (2012) "
Elnaz Bokharachi
Mesch, Claudia
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803428
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TL48216
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1682047931; 1588175
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Smail, Gareth C.
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Displacement, Belonging, Photography: Gender and Iranian Identity in Shirin Neshat's 'The Women of Allah' (1993–7) and 'The Book of Kings' (2012)\ Elnaz BokharachiMesch, Claudia
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Arizona State University
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2015
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M.A.
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Art History
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2015
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86
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Committee members: Anand, Julie; Ghanem, Carla; Hoy, Meredith
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-73133-0
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Shirin Neshat is recognized as the most prominent artist of the Iranian diaspora. Her two photographic series, <i>Women of Allah</i> (1993–97) and <i>The Book of Kings</i> (2012), are both reactions to the socio-political events and the change of female identity in Iran. The search for Iranian identity has a long tradition in Iranian photography. Neshat's figures, with their penetrating gazes, heavy draperies, and body postures, make reference to nineteenth-century Qajar photography. Through various cultural elements in her artworks, Neshat critiques oppression in Iranian society. Neshat employs and inscribes Persian poetry to communicate contradiction within Iranian culture.
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Art Criticism; Art history
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Communication and the arts;Identity;Iran;Iranian diaspora;Iranian identity;Neshat, Shirin;Photography
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Mesch, Claudia
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Art HistoryArizona State University
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