Born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1944, Koorosh Shishegaran is considered one of the most expressive and emotive artists of the contemporary Iranian art movement. He received a BFA in Interior Design at the University of Tehran and has since participated widely in solo and group exhibitions in the region and internationally. Best known for his political posters and abstract linear oil paintings, Shishegaran's work testifies to a wide array of experiments on different media and a range of approaches.
With essays and contributions from leading experts in the field and featuring over three hundred plates, this collection will bring together the life and work of Shishegaran for the first time, highlighting the artists progressive approach, which merged Persian traditional and Western modern art.
Hamid Keshmirshekan is a research associate at the LMEI and Associate Professor in the History of Art Department at the Advanced Research Institute for Art (ARIA), Iranian Academy of the Arts. He is editor-in-chief of the bilingual (English Persian) quarterly Art Tomorrow and was previously Academic Fellow in the History of Art Department, Oxford University. His publications include Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives and Contemporary Art from the Middle East: Regional Interactions with Global Art Discourses.
First monograph on one of the leading lights of the contemporary Iranian art movement.
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1 The Crowd, the Truth, and the Artist |
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2 Art without Borders: The Apprenticeship of Koorosh Shishegaran |
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3 The Trajectory of Koorosh Shishegaran's Artistic Phases: From Utopianism to Aestheticism |
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4 The Infinite Line: A Critical Analysis of Koorosh Shishegaran's Modern and Conceptual Quests |
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5 From Altruism to Nihilism: The Art of Koorosh Shishegaran |
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Appropriation of Works of Great Artists |
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Scribble Lines (Khat-khatis) |
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| Contributors |
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| General bibliography |
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Koorosh Shishegaran (b. 1944) has participated widely in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including Art Dubai (2015); Shirin Gallery, Tehran (2015); Unedited History. Iran 1960-2014, at MAXXI, Rome (2015) and Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2014); Opera Gallery, London (2012); Beijing Biennial (2003); Barbican Centre, London (2001); Meridian Center exhibitions in the United States (2001-03). Hamid Keshmirshekan is a research associate at LMEI, SOAS, University of London and Head of History of Art Department at the Advanced Research Institute, Iranian Academy of Arts. He is editor-in-chief of the bilingual quarterly, Art Tomorrow. His publications include Contemporary Iranian Art: New Perspectives. Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, as well as a founding member of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University.Abbas Daneshvari is Professor of Art History at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author and editor of various books about Persian art, including Amazingly Original: Contemporary Iranian Art at a Crossroads (2014).David Galloway is a curator, academic, novelist and journalist. A graduate of Harvard University, he was the founding curator of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and is emeritus professor at the Ruhr University Bochum. He has contributed to over 100 books on the subject of art and design. Alireza Sami Azar received his PhD in Architecture from UCE University, England. He was Head of the Art Research Department, Tehran University from 1997 to 2004, Head of the Iranian Centre of Visual Arts and the Director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art from 1998 to 2005.
