The Persian Revival - The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture

Examines Europe's discovery of ancient Iran, first in philology and then in art history, and explores the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies of power, selfhood, and statehood in British India and Zand-Qajar-Pahlavi Iran.

About the author

Talinn Grigor is Professor of Art History at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage Under the Pahlavi Monarchs and Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio.

Summary

Examines Europe’s discovery of ancient Iran, first in philology and then in art history, and explores the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies of power, selfhood, and statehood in British India and Zand-Qajar-Pahlavi Iran.

Product details

• Authors: Talinn (University of California Grigor, Grigor Talinn
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2021
• EAN: 9780271089430
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08943-0
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Historiography, ART / Criticism & Theory, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Middle East / Iran, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, History of Architecture, HISTORY / Asia / South / India