Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction Section I : Knowledge-Production and Transfer Section II : Artistic Production and Contemporary Discourses Section III : Exposing Contemporary Art from the Middle East General Bibliography Index

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This timely book tackles ongoing questions about how ‘local’ perspectives on contemporary art from the Middle East are defined and how these perspectives intersect with global art discourses.

About the Author

Hamid Keshmirshekan is a Research Associate at the London Middle East Institute (SOAS). Before this he was a Barakat Trust Fellow at Oxford University, where he taught at the Khalili Research Centre for Islamic Art for eight years. He is a leading authority on the contemporary art of Iran.