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" 'The Clarity of Meaning': Contemporary Iranian Art and the Cosmopolitan Ethics of Reading in Art History "
Foad Torshizi
Dabashi, Hamid
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804498
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TL49329
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1896532871; 10273459
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Brewer, David J.
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'The Clarity of Meaning': Contemporary Iranian Art and the Cosmopolitan Ethics of Reading in Art History\ Foad TorshiziDabashi, Hamid
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Columbia University
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Middle East, South Asian and African Studies
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2017
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403
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-73065-4
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| Abstract
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This dissertation traces the substantial expansion of Western interest in contemporary Iranian art over the past two decades. In reading Iranian artifacts, it argues that Western disciplinary frames, most specifically art history and criticism, circumscribe the heterogeneity of Iranian contemporary art. Submitted to Western frames of legibility, the multivalent aesthetic properties of contemporary Iranian art is reduced to readily consumable social, political, and ethical messages. Burdened by the need to speak for Iranian society as a whole, the diverse aesthetic economies of Iranian artifacts are curtailed and reconfigured so that they align with Euro–American understandings of meaning, value, aspiration, and desire.
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Comparative literature; Art history; Aspiration; Ethics; Middle Eastern studies; Legibility; Art; Politics
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Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Art history;Contemporary Iranian art;Cosmopolitanism;Global art;Globalization;Iran
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Dabashi, Hamid
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Middle East, South Asian and African StudiesColumbia University
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