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Urban Iran Hardcover – November 28, 2008

by Salar Abdoh (Author), Charlotte Noruzi (Author)

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Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher (November 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0979966612
ISBN-13: 978-0979966613
Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 1.2 x 10.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,324,838 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #249 in Books > Arts & Photography > Other Media > Graffiti & Street Art
- #2551 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Pop Culture > Art
- #2699 in Books > Arts & Photography > Graphic Design > Techniques

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Living Inside and Outside Censorship

By Grady Harp HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on February 7, 2009

Format: Hardcover

URBAN IRAN is yet another fine book on design and graphic art from Mark Batty Publishers. Some casual readers might view this well designed and edited survey of art as yet another aspect of the plentiful books on graffiti art, but for the reader who takes time to not only enjoy the richly colorful pages so generously offered here but to also read the fine essays, there is much to learn, appreciate and understand about Iran as a country cramped by years of censorship. The effects of harsh laws against self-expression are bound to be most obvious in the street graffiti, that universal sounding board for resentment and anger and fatigue over the establishment.

Photographers Karan Rashid and Sina Araghi have captured the vistas of the countryside and the cities (especially Tehran) both with and without art and with and without people. The results are richly personal - each photograph making a statement in visuals alone. The commentary that accompanies the images of street art (including a particularly sensitive introduction by Editor Buzz Poole) allows the reader to appreciate the daring strides made by street artists in a government so very closed. Chapters such as 'The 206' (a popular automobile in Iran) allows the reader a journey through the countryside, demonstrating the differences between the East and the West in commentary and in images; 'A1ONE' speaks volumes in graffiti images on the streets without words; PORTRAITS OF THE EVERY DAY utilizes excellent commentaries along with images of the people and the buildings to inform us of life as it continues to exist under constantly changing influences from the outside.

For this reader the last half of the book devoted to THE ART OF PUBLISHING is the most satisfying.Read more ›

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A world in flux expressed in art

By Dennis Littrell HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on January 19, 2009

Format: Hardcover

The focus here is on graffiti and street art in contemporary Iran along with streets scenes depicting everyday life, especially in the bustling, angry metropolis that is Tehran. Karan Reshad and Sina Araghi do the photography while writing about what life is like today in Iran and about the life and intent of the artists. There are also essays such as "Slab City" by Brian Ackley, and "Roots of Rebellion" by Coco Ferguson. There is some information about the artists, some of whom are young taggers who operate underground away from the censoring eyes of the theocratic regime.

In a sense this book is about rebelling against established authority as urban taggers are wont to do throughout the world. In another sense this is a graphic report on life in Iran and how it plays out under the authoritative eyes of the ayatollahs. One gets a sense of flux and unsettlement, a culture in transition, part of it resisting change, part of it hoping for change.

The street art is colorful, more thoughtful perhaps than that of other cities, and at times whimsical. A1ONE, one of the featured artists has a most distinctive style combining cartoon figures with something like science fiction Cubism tinged with a noticeable edginess. He also does stencils including the ambiguous but clearly ironic "ILOVEATOMBOMB." The influence of the West is sprinkled throughout as it mingles with the values of the traditional society. An example is from the street artist BigChiz who gives us, on what appears to be a metal maintenance door, an enigmatic drawing of Kurt Cobain. One of the essays by Coco Ferguson and Sohrab Mohebbi entitled "Hair Is for Head-Banging" is about Iran's metal scene ("...away from thrash toward progressive, almost funk metal...").Read more ›

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interesting book

By Bonnie Neely on November 25, 2008

Format: Hardcover

Urban Iran by Mark Batty, Publisher This book made me sad. The photos depict art found in today's cities of Iran, principally in Tehran. With the political strife of the last few decades and the iron leadership of a theocratic government artists have been severely limited or censured in what they are allowed to say or portray, so art in every form nearly died. Yet artists are born and yearn to create. Recently they have become emboldened in what they are presenting, often disguised but giving hidden messages, which people are beginning to discern. This book catalogues the often angry art found in public places and in even children's books today in Iran. The artists were interviewed and speak out with careful articulation about their plight and the stirrings of protest. It is a fascinating book but makes one sad to see the grief expressed in the art. This is a bold, history-making book, important for the world to see and important as future documentation of life in today's Iran.

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