Retelling the Global Contemporary;  a Case Study: She Who Tells a Story; Women Photographers from Iran and the  Arab World; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 27, 2013–January 12, 2014; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.,  April 08–July 31, 2016.

Athari, Maryam

Retelling the Global Contemporary; a Case Study: She Who Tells a Story; Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 27, 2013–January 12, 2014; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., April 08–July 31, 2016.

dc.contributor.advisor	Koontz, Rex
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Tejada, Roberto J.
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Zalman, Sandra
dc.creator	Athari, Maryam
dc.creator.orcid	0000-0002-1602-7334
dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-13T03:17:01Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-13T03:17:01Z
dc.date.created	May 2017
dc.date.issued	2017-05
dc.date.submitted	May 2017
dc.date.updated	2019-09-13T03:17:02Z
dc.description.abstract	This thesis analyzes an exhibition that is a site for discussing the global contemporary in its relation to a specific selection of photographs that aimed to define a geographic area—Iran and the Arab World. This analysis is focused more specifically on Iran. By historicizing the works of a number of Iranian artists in the exhibit She Who Tells a Story (Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World), this thesis examines the overgeneralizing narrative of a US site-specific exhibition, thereby complicating the existing institutional narratives by underlining the contextual particularities. This analysis contends that developing a substantial and reliable body of scholarship about the art world of each of the countries in the region, broadly called the Middle East, demands undertaking an on the ground research to build an archive of multiple histories and a vivid forum of different modes of knowledge.
dc.description.department	Art, School of
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dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10657/4500
dc.language.iso	eng
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dc.subject	Global Contemporary
dc.subject	Photography
dc.subject	Middle East
dc.subject	Iran
dc.subject	Neo-Orientalism
dc.subject	Center-Periphery
dc.subject	Historicization
dc.title	Retelling the Global Contemporary; a Case Study: She Who Tells a Story; Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 27, 2013–January 12, 2014; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., April 08–July 31, 2016.
dc.type.dcmi	Text
dc.type.genre	Thesis
thesis.degree.college	Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts
thesis.degree.department	Art, School of
thesis.degree.discipline	Art History
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Houston
thesis.degree.level	Masters
thesis.degree.name	Master of Arts