Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes: 1948–78 Indigenous Stan Douglas

Stan Douglas

Scott McFarland will feature forty photographs produced over the past six years

Apparently the number of identical lines causes the brain to lose proper focus on what it is seeing

Images: Installation view of "SPOTLIGHT: Sandeep Johal

including 70 from the prestigious George Eastman House

Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes: 1948–78 Indigenous Stan DouglasModern Iran and the Avant Gardes, 194878 explores how the complex cultural tensions of the nations period between 1948 and 1978 led to artistic innovation. As Iran became modern, modernism became distinctly Iranian. Iranian artists created a unique form of modernism that addressed the tension between commitments to innovate and an engagement with traditional Iranian ideas and cultural forms. Heavily illustrated, this publication features thirty