- Title
- Pahlavan II, Ready to Order
- Date Made
- 2008
- Medium
- Mixed media box
- Dimensions
- 76 × 52 × 10 in. (193 × 132.08 × 25.4 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2017.68
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
This mixed-media box provides a contemporary take on Iranian history, culture, and religion. Its focal point is an image of a pahlavan (or champion) based on a vintage photograph. The pahlavan is clothed as a member of the zurkhana and enclosed, along with actual objects associated with the zurkhana, in a shrine-like structure decorated with internal lights, perhaps to emulate the Iranian tradition of erecting temporary memorials to commemorate the dead.
- 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.
