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Urban Culture in Tehran
This book studies the production of urban culture in Tehran after 1979. It analyzes urban resistance and urban processes in underground cultural spaces: bookshops, cafes and art galleries. The intended audience is architects and urban planners interested in socio-political aspects of bottom-up space formation, but also those in humanities and particularly cultural studies. The idea of the book reflects architectural criticism and bottom-up processes of space formation. It analyzes alternative, non-official ways of forming cultural spaces in Tehran and the way they resist formally endorsed culture. Cafés, bookshops and galleries, each take various and different sets of strategies to constitu...
The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran
Modernist Iranian art represents a highly diverse field of cultural production deeply involved in discussing questions of modernity and modernization as practiced in Iran. This book investigates how artistic production and art criticism reflected upon the discourse about gharbzadegi (westoxification), the most substantial critique of Iran's adaptation of Western modernity, and ultimately proved to be a laboratory for the negotiation of an anti-colonial concept of an Iranian artistic modernity, which artists and critics envisioned as a significant other to Western colonial modernity. In this book, Katrin Nahidi revisits Iranian modernist art, aiming to explore a political and contextualized interpretation of modernism. Based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, Nahidi provides a history of modernist art production since the 1950s and reveals the complex political agency underlying art historiographical processes. Offering a key contribution to postcolonial art history, Nahidi shows how Iranian artistic modernity was used to flesh out anti-colonial concepts and ideas around Iranian national identity.
Alternative Iran
Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes. Since the 1980s, political, economic, and intellectual forces have driven Iran's creative class toward increasingly original forms of artmaking not meant for official venues. Instead, these art forms appear in private homes with "trusted" audiences, derelict buildings, leftover urban zones, and remote natural sites. While many of these venues operate independently, others are fully sanctioned by the state. Drawing on interviews with over a hundred artists, gallerists, theater exper...
Metropolis
From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York Times The story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shanghai and Lagos, Ben Wilson takes us through millennia on a thrilling global tour of the key urban centres of history. Rich with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life, Metropolis is at once the story of these extraordinary places and of the vital role they have played in making us who we are. 'Panoramic...entertaining and rich in wondrous detail' Tom Holland 'A towering achievement... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time' Wall Street Journal
Metrópoles
Nos vários milénios da nossa existência, nada nos moldou mais profundamente do que a cidade. Das suas primeiras versões, há 7000 anos, às megalópoles atuais, a história da cidade é a história da civilização. Iniciando o seu relato em Uruk, a primeira cidade do mundo, Ben Wilson revela-nos que as cidades nunca foram uma necessidade mas que, a partir do momento em que surgiram, a pressão que geraram deu origem à maior parte das revoluções políticas, sociais, comerciais, científicas e artísticas que conhecemos. São estes momentos transformadores e definidores de épocas que nos guiam numa viagem emocionante pelas metrópoles que tiveram um papel decisivo na História: Uruk, Atenas, Alexandria, Roma, Bagdade, Veneza, Lisboa, Amesterdão, Londres, Nova Iorque, Xangai e Lagos. Repleto de figuras históricas e retratos da vida quotidiana, Metrópoles é uma grande viagem pelas conquistas humanas que combina de forma exemplar academismo e narrativa histórica.
Metropolen
Wie kommt es, dass heute die Hälfte der Menschheit in Städten lebt? Der Historiker Ben Wilson spannt einen faszinierenden Bogen von der Urgeschichte in die Zukunft, um diese Frage zu beantworten. Seine Reise beginnt 4.000 v. Chr. in Uruk, verläuft über die Zentren der antiken Welt Babylon, Athen und Rom, führt u. a. über Bagdad und Lübeck nach London, Paris, New York und Warschau und endet in Los Angeles und Lagos. Jede Stadt steht für einen bestimmten Aspekt, Lübeck etwa für Handel, Warschau für Zerstörung durch Krieg, Lagos für die Megacity der Zukunft. Farbig und detailreich erzählt Wilson vom Alltag der Menschen in der Stadt, vom Glanz der Villen und Boulevards, aber auch v...
城市六千年史
城市，是人類最巨大的成就，形塑人類的文明。 當2050年全球三分之二的人口居住在城市時，我們的城市生活將變成什麼模樣？ ◎本書已售出韓國、越南、巴西、荷蘭、德國、義大利、西班牙、俄羅斯等25國版權 ◎作者班‧威爾森曾榮獲毛姆文學獎 ◎譯者李易安曾獲台灣卓越新聞獎，並入圍亞洲出版協會（SOPA）新聞獎 從世界第一座城市烏魯克起始，帶你綜覽羅馬、巴格達、呂貝克、倫敦、洛杉磯、上海等26座城市的誕生與衰落、過去與未來，展示人類與城市共通的命運。 □適應氣候變遷的印度，5000年前就有沖水馬桶，普及...
The Persian Revival
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 archit...
Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran
Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran investigates the ways in which Armenian minorities in Iran encountered Iranian nationalism and participated in its development over the course of the twentieth century. Based primarily on oral interviews, archival documents, memoirs, memorabilia, and photographs, the book examines the lives of a group of Armenian Iranians—a truck driver, an army officer, a parliamentary representative, a civil servant, and a scout leader—and explores the personal conflicts and paradoxes attendant upon their layered allegiances and compound identities. In documenting individual experiences in Iranian industry, military, government, education, and community organizations, the five social biographies detail the various roles of elites and nonelites in the development of Iranian nationalism and reveal the multiple forces that shape the processes of identity formation. Yaghoubian combines these portraits with a theoretical grounding to answer recurring pivotal questions about how nationalism evolves, why it is appealing, what broad forces and daily activities shape and sustain it, and the role of ethnicity in its development.
The Evolution in Pharmacology of Infectious Diseases: 2022
There have been tremendous advancements in the Pharmacology of Infectious Diseases in recent years. These recent advancements underline the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in the study of infectious diseases. In order to explore this fast-growing area, Frontiers is launching a new series of Research Topics focusing on the evolution of methods, processes, scientific breakthroughs and technology advances in the field of Pharmacology of Infectious Diseases. In this article collection, we seek contributions exploring the changing context, the recent advances, the challenges, and the emerging new perspectives within the field.
