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# 82
ART+ART: The Avant-Garde in the Streets
Hamed Yousefi
From its inception in the late 1940s, Iranian modernism constantly found itself facing an indifferent public that considered modern art socially irrelevant. In retrospect, the history of modernism in Iran looks like a history of artistic attempts to overcome this sense of alienation from the public. But the more art tried to bridge the gap, the deeper the gap between art and the public grew. In this context, Art+Art came less as a new response than as a radical negation of the presuppositions of the question itself. Shishegaran’s work turned the question of the art-public relationship on its head and dissolved the binary between art and life altogether.
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 5, 2017
Category
Design, Contemporary Art, Modernism, Urbanism
Subjects
Middle East, Street art
# 65
Provincialism Perfected: Global Contemporary Art and Uneven Development
David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi
Looking back on twentieth century modernism from the standpoint of today, it seems that its major aesthetic component was actually provincialism. Across the world, different forms of social and economic modernization emerged, leading artists to develop new practices that broke from tradition to engage with these shifting circumstances. However, the early canonization of “modern art” in Western Europe, followed by the transfer of power to New York towards the middle of the century, meant that…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Contemporary Art, Modernism, Globalization
Subjects
Contemporaneity, Neoliberalism