Mira Xenia Schwerda

Journal Article Art in Translation · January 1, 2024 This interview with contemporary artist Parviz Tanavoli focuses on his lesser-known work as a printmaker, especially his screen-print series titled Poet, his collecting of historical prints from the Qajar period, and the translation and dissemination of re ... Full text Cite

Visualizing Kingship in a Time of Change

Journal Article Manazir Journal · October 9, 2023 Despite artistic engagement with photography in Iran almost immediately after the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, the field of Islamic art history has had difficulty accepting the modern period and the medium of photography as part of its d ... Full text Cite

Editorial

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Exhibition Reviews

Journal Article International Journal of Islamic Architecture · March 1, 2019 AbstractMOUNIRA AL SOLH: I STRONGLY BELIEVE IN OUR RIGHT TO BE FRIVOLOUS, THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, IL, FEBRUARY 8, 2018–APRIL 29, 2018THE PRINCE AND THE SHAH: R ... Full text Cite

Iranian Photography: From the Court, to the Studio, to the Street

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Death on Display: Mirza Riza Kirmani, Prison Portraiture and the Depiction of Public Executions in Qajar Iran

Journal Article Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication · January 1, 2015 This article focuses on two sets of images sparked by the assassination of the Iranian ruler Nasir al-Din Shah in 1896-photographs of his murderer Mirza Riza Kirmani as a prisoner and photographs of his execution-as a significant episode in the history of ... Full text Cite