Talinn Grigor
Talinn Grigor is Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis. Her research traces 18th- to 20th-century architectural and art histories through postcolonial, race, feminist, and critical theories grounded in Iran, Armenia, Armeno-Iran, and Parsi India. Her books include the award-winning The Persian Revival (2021), Contemporary Iranian Art (2014), and Building Iran (2009). Co-authored with Houri Berberian, her next book is The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979 (Stanford University Press, 2025). Grigor has received fellowships from the National Gallery of Art (CASVA), Getty Research Institute, Cornell’s Humanities Center, Princeton’s Persian Center, MIT’s Aga Khan Program, SSRC, NAASR, and Persian Heritage and Gulbenkian foundations among others.
Address: University of California, Davis
Department of Art and Art History
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Address: University of California, Davis
Department of Art and Art History
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
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The essay traces the spatial history and politics of the conception and practice of public space in modern Iran. A historical flashback foregrounds the secularization of public space under the Pahlavi kings from 1925 to 1979, followed by the fluctuating attempts by various administrations of the Islamic Republic of Iran to redefine a public space premised on the postrevolutionary domestic visions as well as the Iran-Iraq War. The Khatami administration's reform agendas after 1997 and the subsequent pushback by conservative segments of the state have seen the hyper-activation and contestation of the Iranian public space.
http://we-aggregate.org/piece/the-thing-we-loved-little-girls-inanimate-objects-and-the-violence-of-a-system
The essay traces the spatial history and politics of the conception and practice of public space in modern Iran. A historical flashback foregrounds the secularization of public space under the Pahlavi kings from 1925 to 1979, followed by the fluctuating attempts by various administrations of the Islamic Republic of Iran to redefine a public space premised on the postrevolutionary domestic visions as well as the Iran-Iraq War. The Khatami administration's reform agendas after 1997 and the subsequent pushback by conservative segments of the state have seen the hyper-activation and contestation of the Iranian public space.
http://we-aggregate.org/piece/the-thing-we-loved-little-girls-inanimate-objects-and-the-violence-of-a-system