Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes: 1948–78 Indigenous 70 black and white illustrations

70 black and white illustrations

Made from recycled board and printed with vegetable based ink

including 70 from the prestigious George Eastman House

Scott McFarland will feature forty photographs produced over the past six years

Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes: 1948–78 Indigenous 70 black and white illustrationsModern Iran and the Avant Gardes, 194878 explores how the complex cultural tensions of the nations period between 1948 and 1978 led to artistic innovation. As Iran became modern, modernism became distinctly Iranian. Iranian artists created a unique form of modernism that addressed the tension between commitments to innovate and an engagement with traditional Iranian ideas and cultural forms. Heavily illustrated, this publication features thirty