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“talinn grigor”

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  • The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979

    by Talinn Grigor, Houri Berberian ...
    With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women's organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran's central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • The Persian RevivalThe Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture

    The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture

    by Talinn Grigor ...
    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 ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Iranian Art

    From the Street to the Studio

    by Talinn Grigor ...
    The art world has recently witnessed a surge of interest in contemporary Iranian art, but what is the background to Iran's vibrant art scene? This is the first comprehensive book on Iranian art and visual culture since the 1979 revolution. Divided into three parts – street, studio and exile – it covers official art sponsored by the Islamic Republic, the culture of avant-garde art created in the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Persian Kingship and Architecture

    Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis

    by Sussan Babaie, Talinn Grigor ...
    Since the Shah went into exile and the Islamic Republic was established in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, the very idea of monarchy in Iran has been contentious. Yet, as Persian Kingship and Architecture argues, the institution of kingship has historically played a pivotal role in articulating the abstract notion of 'Iran' since antiquity. These ideas surrounding kingship and nation ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

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  • Egypt

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  • Forgotten Voices

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