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Parastou Forouhar
Rose Issa
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Description for Parastou Forouhar
Paperback. The Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar expresses her reaction to the perplexing situations in her homeland through a wide variety of techniques, from photography to digital drawings and multi-media installations. Editor(s): Issa, Rose. Num Pages: 128 pages, colour. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 201 x 11. Weight in Grams: 574.
This publication presents a selection of her most startling work so far, created in response to the dramatic social and political upheaval that she experienced after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the murder of her parents in Tehran. Though the inspiration behind Forouhar's subject matter may be tragic, her work has a great emotional range: the results are sometimes macabre, occasionally darkly humorous and often purely joyful. Published to coincide with artist's first solo show in the UK at Leighton House Museum, London, in October 2010, this is the first English-language monograph of her work. The Artist's work is ... Read more
This publication presents a selection of her most startling work so far, created in response to the dramatic social and political upheaval that she experienced after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the murder of her parents in Tehran. Though the inspiration behind Forouhar's subject matter may be tragic, her work has a great emotional range: the results are sometimes macabre, occasionally darkly humorous and often purely joyful. Published to coincide with artist's first solo show in the UK at Leighton House Museum, London, in October 2010, this is the first English-language monograph of her work. The Artist's work is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Saqi Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780863564482
SKU
V9780863564482
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About Rose Issa
About the artist: Parastou Forouhar was born in 1962 in Tehran, and since 1991 has lived and worked in Germany. She received her BA in Art from the University of Tehran (1990) and her MA from the Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Germany (1994). About the editor: Rose Issa is a curator and writer who has championed visual art and film from ... Read more
Reviews for Parastou Forouhar
'Her response to the horrors of our times gives her work purpose and energy - In her depiction of everyday mental and physical brutality, she creates images of aesthetic appeal but disturbing ambiguity.' Lutz Becker from his introductory essay. 'Forouhar draws on a large reservoir of Iranian cultural forms and uses them to create pieces with great lyrical content.' Russell ... Read more