“Dense with history and politics and provides an important window into a culture that many find inscrutable. However, instead of negatively affecting the narrative, such complications make the portrayal of Iran’s contemporary art scene more fascinating. . . . A valuable addition.”
— ARLIS/NA
“Filled with beautiful visual imagery and penned in readable prose, Grigor’s history illuminates Iran’s visual culture with a suitably rich complexity.”
— Art Asia Pacific
“This book is a brave venture, a pioneering act of service to a broad readership. Iran counts as among the most dynamic and charismatic phenomena in the field of contemporary art, and to learn about it one has had to rely largely on vacuous marketing ploys of this lucrative body of artistic material. Grigor’s painstaking research for this book, her rich collection of visual and discursive data, her insights, and her very readable prose contribute not only to our understanding of contemporary Iran but also to the broader study of contemporary global arts into which Iran should and does fit firmly. In many ways, this book will be a benchmark for all future studies on contemporary Iranian arts.”
— Sussan Babaie, author of Isfahan and its Palaces
“Grigor’s Contemporary Iranian Art is a rigorous and authoritative statement about art that will be essential to anyone interested in Iranian culture and history. It also provides much needed education for an art audience hungry for a scholarly, detailed, and historically minded treatment of the Iranian contemporary art world.”
— Peter R. Kalb, author of Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary
“Richly illustrated and compellingly argued, Contemporary Iranian Art is a welcome addition to an emerging scholarly literature on contemporary art in non-Western and postcolonial societies. It will be of interest to students and scholars of modern and contemporary art and architecture, visual culture, Middle Eastern and Asian studies, and globalization, as well as to general readers and an art world audience of curators, critics, and artists. . . . Highly recommended”
— Choice
“Grigor reports and documents the history behind Contemporary Iranian Art coherently and expertly.”
— Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World