The Politics of the Past: The Representation of the Ancient Empires by Iran’s Modern States

The Politics of the Past: The Representation of the Ancient Empires by Iran’s Modern States
Author: Maryam Dezhamkhooy
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2018-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789690943

This book examines the highly problematic politics of the past surrounding the archaeology of ancient empires in Iran. Discussing their personal and professional experiences, the authors exemplify the real, ethical dilemmas that archaeologists confront in the Middle East, calling for reflectivity and awareness among the archaeologists of the region

The Persian Revival

The Persian Revival
Author: Talinn Grigor
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0271089709

One of the most heated scholarly controversies of the early twentieth century, the Orient-or-Rome debate turned on whether art historians should trace the origin of all Western—and especially Gothic—architecture to Roman ingenuity or to the Indo-Germanic Geist. Focusing on the discourses around this debate, Talinn Grigor considers the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies of power and identity in British India and in Qajar-Pahlavi Iran. The Persian Revival examines Europe’s discovery of ancient Iran, first in literature and then in art history. Tracing Western visual discourse about ancient Iran from 1699 on, Grigor parses the invention and use of a revivalist architectural style from the Afsharid and Zand successors to the Safavid throne and the rise of the Parsi industrialists as cosmopolitan subjects of British India. Drawing on a wide range of Persian revival narratives bound to architectural history, Grigor foregrounds the complexities and magnitude of artistic appropriations of Western art history in order to grapple with colonial ambivalence and imperial aspirations. She argues that while Western imperialism was instrumental in shaping high art as mercantile-bourgeois ethos, it was also a project that destabilized the hegemony of a Eurocentric historiography of taste. An important reconsideration of the Persian Revival, this book will be of vital interest to art and architectural historians and intellectual historians, particularly those working in the areas of international modernism, Iranian studies, and historiography.

Journal ...

Journal ...
Author: Anthropological Society of Bombay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1909
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

Spiegel Memorial Volume

Spiegel Memorial Volume
Author: Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1908
Genre: Iranian languages
ISBN:

More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm.

Asiatic Papers

Asiatic Papers
Author: Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1917
Genre: Asia
ISBN: