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Mohsen Yazdipour
Untitled2008

Not on view
Mixed-media diorama with cut-out devotional figures of bearded horsemen, a three-dimensional white horse marked in red, metal chains, paper flowers, and Arabic calligraphy, framed in a patterned textile border
Artist or Maker
Mohsen Yazdipour
Iran, born 1980
Title
Untitled
Date Made
2008
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
Primary support: 29 1/2 × 41 1/4 in. (74.93 × 104.78 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: CONTEMPORARY
Accession Number
M.2017.55.2
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
Curatorial Notes

This print is from a series in which the artist collages and photographs popular images (now proscribed in Iran) commemorating the massacre of Imam Husain and his family at Karbala in 680. Such Shi‘ite imagery remains readily recognizable in Iran in much the same way that depictions of martyred Christian saints were commonplace in premodern Europe and are still well known in many places.

Selected Bibliography
  • Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.