BBCNEWS Epic Iran September 13, 2021 00:47:00
You had many different art schools and academies, you had private galleries, you had, by the early �*50s, 700 newspapers, public television — which was a very radical public television programme — and you had art fairs and the shiraz persepolis festival. within that period, there were lots of different voices, political voices. clearly not everyone was monarchist, there were anti—monarchists, marxists, socialists, islamicists, republicans all working within this field and giving their own voice. so we wanted to represent that dynamic period of modernism, when iranian artists were reall...