Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Exhibitions of Modernist Iranian Art: The Construction of a Secular Heritage
Iran Modern and the Iranian Diaspora
The Tehran Modern: The Cancellation of an Exhibition
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art: The Tehran Modern in Iran
2 Cultural Politics in Pahlavi Iran: The TMoCA's Architecture and the Evolution of Gharbzadegi in Arts and Politics
Westoxification: The Discourse of Gharbzadegi

Queen Farah Diba and Her Support of Arts and Culture
The Architecture of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Iranian Modernist Art and Jalal al-e Ahmad's Concept of Gharbzadegi
3 ""Saqqakhaneh Revisited"": The Art-Historiographical Construction of a Local Modernism
Shi'ite Material Culture in Modernist Iranian Art
Politics of the Period
The Naming of Saqqakhaneh
Saqqakhaneh's Existence as a Group
The State's Recognition of Saqqakhaneh as an Expression of a State-Sponsored Modernism
Saqqakhaneh's Discursive Afterlife

4 Jalil Ziapour and the Fighting Rooster Association (.orus-e Jangi)
Cubist Aesthetics in Iran
The Fighting Rooster Association
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index