De-Orientalizing Iran: The Art of Sevruguin, Neshat, Navab and Ghazel
Aphrodite Navab
Broschiertes Buch

De-Orientalizing Iran: The Art of Sevruguin, Neshat, Navab and Ghazel

A Comparative Anaylsis of the Autobiographical Art of Four Diasporic Iranians: Neshat, Navab, Sevruguin and Ghazel

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Culturally hybrid persons are often caught in the crossfire of prejudices. For Iranians living in the West, the demonization of the Other becomes a daily negation of the Self. How do they find agency between hegemonic representational systems that seek to dichotomize and essentialize East and West? The purpose of this study was to investigate ways of re-presenting and critiquing self and culture through camera-based art, using a comparative analysis of four culturally hybrid Iranian artists: Antoin Sevruguin (ca. 1838-1933), Shirin Neshat (b. 1957), Ghazel (b. 1966), and Aphrodite Désirée Na...