Neshat-isms

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-American visual artist and filmmaker known for her poetic and politically charged images and narratives that raise questions about power, religion, race, and gender. Neshat-isms is a collection of quotations from interviews, talks, and writings that showcase her voice and advocacy for Iranian women and human rights.

Format: Hardback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 06 February 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Shirin Neshat is an influential contemporary artist and filmmaker known for her powerful and thought-provoking work. Her experiences of loss and grief as an Iranian woman living in exile are central themes of her photography, video, and film. Neshat is renowned for her outspoken advocacy for Iranian women and human rights, and for poetic and politically charged images and narratives that raise questions about power, religion, race, and gender.

Gathered from interviews, talks, and writings, these powerful and thought-provoking quotations showcase the voice of one of the most important artists of our time.

Neshat has continued to defy and resist the Western clichéd image of Iranian women as passive victims. While acknowledging the repressive situation in Iran, she has represented Iranian women as empowered, courageous, defiant, and rebellious.

Every Iranian artist, in one form or another, is political. Politics has defined our lives. Neshat has done a lot of work about women in a state of madness, where ultimately they find a kind of freedom.

You cannot demystify a myth.

Neshat's work is a testament to her talent and commitment to social justice and human rights. Her images and narratives continue to inspire and challenge viewers, and her advocacy for women and human rights is an important contribution to the global conversation.

Weight: 168g
Dimension: 115 x 141 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780691254630