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Neshat-isms
Shirin Neshat; Edited by Larry Warsh
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A vivid and compelling collection of quotations from the
influential contemporary artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat
Neshat-isms is an exciting collection of quotations from
award-winning Iranian-American visual artist and filmmaker Shirin
Neshat. Her experiences of loss and grief as an Iranian woman
living in exile are central themes of her work in photography,
video, and film. She is known for her outspoken advocacy for
Iranian women and human rights, and for poetic and politically
charged images and narratives that raise questions about power,
religion, race, and gender. Gathered from interviews, talks, and
writings, these powerful and thought-provoking quotations showcase
the voice of one of the most important artists of our time.
“Through my work I have continued to defy and resist the Western
clichéd image of Iranian women as passive victims. While
acknowledging the repressive situation in Iran, I have continued to
represent Iranian women as empowered, courageous, defiant, and
rebellious.” “Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is
political. Politics has defined our lives.” “I’ve done a lot
of work about women in a state of madness, where ultimately they
find a kind of freedom.” “You can’t demystify a myth.”
Self-Portrait explores 30 years of artistic research by Paolo
Canevari (Rome, 1963), proposing a series of sculptures, drawings
and installations ranging from the first creations in the wake of
Arte Povera, to those made of rubber from the 1990s, up to the more
recent series Monuments of the Memory: Landscape and
Constellations. The works tell of Canevari's vision of art-making,
which moves from a classical training combined with a profound
conceptual research, while also animated by a strong political
character. Through the use of different media and materials - with
a predilection for the rubber of inner tubes and tyres - Canevari
adopts a language that is sometimes brutal, often ambiguous,
certainly evocative, to bring light into the dark territories of
man, understood both as an individual and as humanity. His radical
and subversive approach aims to stimulate a reaction in the
observer, with the intention, on the one hand, of breaking
prejudices and cliches, on the other of investigating personal,
intimate and inner aspects in relation to the work of art and its
universal meaning. The volume includes a critical text by Robert
Storr, two interviews with the artist collected respectively by
Robert Storr and Francesca Pietropaolo and by Shirin Neshat, and a
tribute to Canevari written by late Sicilian novelist Andrea
Camilleri. Text in English and Italian.
In the 1990s, Shirin Neshat's startling black-and-white videos of
Iranian women won enormous praise for their poetic reflections on
post-revolutionary life in her native country. Writing in the New
Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl called her multi-screen video meditations
on the culture of the chador in Islamic Iran "the first undoubtable
masterpieces of video installation." Over the next twenty-five
years Neshat's work has continued its passionate engagement with
ancient and recent Iranian history, extending its reach to the
universal experience of living in exile and the human impact of
political revolution. This book connects Neshat's early video and
photographic works-including haunting films such as Rapture, 1999
and Tooba, 2002-to her current projects which focus on the relation
of home to exile and dreams such as The Home of My Eyes, 2015, and
a new, never-before-seen project, Land of Dreams, 2019. It includes
numerous stills from her series, Dreamers, in which she documents
the lives of outsiders and exiles in the United States. This volume
also includes essays by prominent Iranian cultural figures as well
as an interview with the artist. Neshat has always been a voice for
those whose individual freedoms are under attack. With this
monograph, her audience will gain a deeper understanding of
Neshat's own emotional, psychological, and political identities,
and how they have helped her create compassionate portraits of the
fraught and delicate spaces between attachment and alienation.
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Shirin Neshat: Women in Society (Hardcover)
Shirin Neshat; Edited by Holger Ventura; Text written by Heide Barrenechea, Michket Krifa, Nima Naghibi, …
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Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent
that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes
overlooked--often unknown. This book is an essential and highly
entertaining guide to video art and its history. Elwes, herself a
pioneer of early video, traces the story from the weighty Portapak
equipment of the '60s and '70s to today's digital technology, from
early experiments in "real time" to the "new narrative" movement of
the 1980s. She also examines video's love-hate relationship with
television, from its literal destruction in "scratch" video to its
apparent absorption into the mainstream with works commissioned by
Channel Four. Throughout its forty-year history, video has been
allied to self-portraiture, landscape, painting and sculpture and
has been co-opted as a political tool. Artists discussed include
amongst many others Nam June Paik, Nan Hoover, The Duvet Brothers,
Dara Birnbaum, Bill Viola, Pipilloti Rist, David Hall, Stuart
Marshall, Shirin Neshat, Smith & Stewart, Steve McQueen and Sam
Taylor-Wood.
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Gerald Matt - Interviews (Paperback)
Tony Matelli, Shirin Neshat, Anri Sala, Matthew Barney, Tracey Moffatt; Text written by …
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During his long and illustrious career as a curator, Gerald Matt,
the current Director of Kunsthalle Vienna, had many insightful
conversations with the top artists of the day. Gathered here are 40
interviews with contemporary artists including Matthew Barney,
Vanessa Beecroft, Candice Breitz, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat,
Raymond Pettibon, Santiago Sierra, Francesco Vezzoli and Yang
Fudong, among others, accompanied by numerous color illustrations
of each artist's work. According to Matt, "The interviews gathered
together in this volume attempt to provide a panoramic overview of
contemporary artistic production modes without demystifying the
aesthetic puzzle with hasty answers. The point here is not to
exhibit shut and dried views of the world but to sketch open
systems that admit some space for continuing discourse. Allow
yourself to be carried forward by the flow of words without
expecting exhaustive help for your life. Entirely in keeping with
the motto that Raymond Pettibon wrote on one of his drawings:
'Whatever you are looking for, you won't find it here.'"
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