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Iranian women artists: defying borders, liberating through art, shaping culture.
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Boundless Spirit
Iranian Women Artists
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256 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
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Summary
A striking illustrated survey of contemporary women artists in Iran and the diaspora, from the late 1960s to today
The work of women artists from Iran and the diaspora crosses mediums, nations, and generations, preserving Iranian culture and questioning it, subverting social restrictions into tools of liberation through art. Boundless Spirit celebrates the extraordinary class of contemporary artists changing the face of Iranian culture and influencing the bro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781580937504 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1580937500 |
| Author: | Mohammed Afkhami, Shirin Neshat, Mahnaz Afkhami, Negar Azimi, Natasha Morris |
| Publisher: | Monacelli Press |
| Imprint: | Monacelli Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 290mm x 250mm |
About The Author
Mohammed Afkhami
- Mohammed Afkhami is a collector, philanthropist, and advocate for artists from the Middle East.
- Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in exile in America. She has spent her career examining what it means to exist between two cultures, focusing on human resilience in the face of upheaval and oppression.
- Mahnaz Afkhami is founder and President of the Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP). Prior to the Islamic revolution in Iran, she was Minister for Women’s Affairs and Secretary General of the Women’s Organization of Iran, chair of the English Department and taught literature at the National University of Iran, where she founded the Association of University Women.
- Negar Azimi is a writer and editor and occasional curator. Her essays, criticism, and reportage have appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, Frieze, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.
- Natasha Morris is a Lecturer in Islamic Arts and a convenor of the Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art at SOAS.
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