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(0)Shirin Neshat
Author
Publisher
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In her mesmerizing films and photographs, Shirin Neshat (Iranian-American, b. Qazvin, 1957) examines the nuances of power and identity in the Islamic world--particularly in her native country of Iran, where she lived until 1975. This book, the companion volume to the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum exhibition of the same name, presents an array of Neshat's most compelling works, illuminating the points at which cultural and political events have inflected...
Author
Language
Persian
Description
Shirin Neshat's Women Without Men is an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's magic realist novel of the same name. Nominated for Golden Lion Award, it chronicles the intertwining lives of 4 Iranian women during the summer of the 1953 coup d état, a cataclysmic moment in history when an American led, British backed mission led to the over throw of Prime Minister and reinstalled the Shah to power.