Behdjat Sadr, Traces

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Behdjat Sadr (1924–2009) was the abstract painter of paradoxical traces, blending luxuriant nature with the sharp-edged industrial world in works that spanned the second half of the 20th century. A pioneer of visual arts in Iran, she was one of the first women artists and art teacher of her country to appear on the international biennales scene by the end of the 1950s. She offers the singular testimony of a nascent cosmopolitan modernity that emerged between Tehran, Rome and Paris, the cities where she studied, worked and exhibited. Above all, Behdjat Sadr embodies an extraordinary fusion of work and life, evident in her multiform layers of gushing and overflowing paint, which expand our vision of abstract art. Combining personal and poetic writings of the artist with press articles and critical essays, this book is the first to document both Sadr’s artistic heritage and intellectual trajectory, marked by her correspondence with renowned figures such as Sohrab Sepehri, Forough Farrokhzad, Pierre Restany, Giulio Carlo Argan…

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Edited by Morad Montazami and Narmine Sadeg
Texts by Fabrice Hergott, Morad Montazami, writings/correspondence of the artist
Published May 2014
Bilingual edition: French/English
Softcover, 22 x 28.50 cm, 240 pages

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Zaman Books

With a variety of formats, monograph, thematic or collective books, Zamân Books publications (historically born out of a generation of marxists and postcolonial intellectuals) cultivate a spirit of activist/archivist.

Committed to the general fieldwork study of Arab, African and Asian modernities, our books seek to constitute authentic data and theoretical tools; at the service of an emancipated history of visual arts, their geographical and conceptual journeys. Eventually to play the role of an interface between different spheres of knowledge and art theory: academic knowledge, artistic knowledge, vernacular knowledge, digital knowledge…