The Persian Revival
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The Persian Revival

The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture

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The Persian Revival

The Imperialism of the Copy in Iranian and Parsi Architecture

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One of the most heated scholarly controversies of the early twentieth century, the Orient-or-Rome debate turned on whether art historians should trace the origin of all Western—and especially Gothic—architecture to Roman ingenuity or to the Indo-Germanic Geist. Focusing on the discourses around this debate, Talinn Grigor considers the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies of power and identity in British India and in Qajar-Pahlavi Iran.

The Persian Revival examines Europe's discovery of ancient Iran, first in literature and then in art history. Tracing Western visual discourse about ancient Iran from 1699 on, Grigor parses the invention and use of a revivalist architectural style from the Afsharid and Zand successors to the Safavid throne and the rise of the Parsi industrialists as cosmopolitan subjects of British India. Drawing on a wide range of Persian revival narratives bound to architectural history, Grigor foregrounds the complexities and magnitude of artistic appropriations of Western art history in order to grapple with colonial ambivalence and imperial aspirations. She argues that while Western imperialism was instrumental in shaping high art as mercantile-bourgeois ethos, it was also a project that destabilized the hegemony of a Eurocentric historiography of taste.

An important reconsideration of the Persian Revival, this book will be of vital interest to art and architectural historians and intellectual historians, particularly those working in the areas of international modernism, Iranian studies, and historiography.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9780271089706
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
History of Architecture

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Chapter 1: Ancient Iran in Western Art Historiography
  6. Notes to Chapter 1
  7. Chapter 2: The Persepolitan Style in British India
  8. Notes to Chapter 2
  9. Chapter 3: The Persian Revival as Iranian Modernity
  10. Notes to Chapter 3
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index