Author: Neshat, Shirin, (and) Lucy R Lippard, (and) Brandee Caoba
Title: Shirin Neshat: Land of Dreams
Description: Santa Fe, Radius Books, 2002. Hardcover. A gray fabric hardcover book with the title debossed in black down the spine. There is a dust jacket and a mylar jacket. The dust jacket features and black-and-white photograph wrapped around both covers. The front and back free and pasted end pages are a heavy gray paper. The headband is black. Pages: (8), 9-151, (4). The book is mostly full page, black-and-white photographs. "In her latest body of work, multimedia artist Shirin Neshat (born 1957) turns her focus to the American West. With more than 100 photographs, a two-channel video installation and a feature film, Neshat creates a multilayered look at contemporary America through the eyes of a fictionalized artist. Monumental black-and-white photographs are transformed through Neshat's use of Farsi text and images that have been hand-drawn onto the picture. The texts represent Neshat's interpretation of the dreams of the sitter, with references to ancient myths and ideologies. Neshat works and experiments with photography, video and film, imbuing them with highly poetic and politically charged images and narratives that question issues of power, religion, race, gender and the relationship between the past and present, occident and orient, individual and collective through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian woman living in exile. VG: Exlibrary book. There are two stickers on the mylar covering spine and back cover. There are two stickers and one due date card pasted onto the back free end paper. The book is in excellent condition, and looks like it was rarely (if ever- the due date card is completely blank!) taken from the shelf.

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