Shirin Neshat

by Shirin Neshat and Hamid Dabashi

In Shirin Neshat's photographs, Persian calligraphic script is transcribed over black and white depictions of the exposed faces, hands and feet of Iranian women. In her video works, swarms of women in black hijabs ululate, or a man in a white dress shirt and black pants sings to an all-male audience, while a lone woman sings to herself in a darkened theater. Always aesthetically compelling, Neshat's work is equally thematically ambiguous, never settling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8881583607
• ISBN13: 9788881583607
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Charta
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.5" x 11.0"