Modernity and revolution: a recent show of Iranian art focused on the turbulent time from 1960 to 1980, juxtaposing formally inventive works of art with politically charged photographs and posters - Art & Politics - Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture

Art in America, Feb, 2003 by Eleanor Heartney

"Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture" was co-organized by New York University's Grey Art Gallery and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies in association with the Iran Heritage Fund, and was on view at the Grey Art Gallery, New York [Sept. 18-Dec. 7, 2002]. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue, published by I.B. Tauris, with essays by Shiva Balaghi, Peter Chelkowski, Haggai Ram and the show's curators, Lynn Gumpert and Fereshteh Daftari.

Eleanor Heartney is the author of Postmodernism, published by the Tate Gallery and Cambridge University Press (2000).