Talinn Grigor | Persepolis After Lindon Smith: The Modernist Afterlife of the Ruins

Persepolis After Lindon Smith: The Modernist Afterlife of the Ruins
Presented by Talinn Grigor, UC Davis
Originally aired Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Talinn Grigor traces the art history of the ruins of Persepolis in the aftermath of its excavation by Ernst Herzfeld and artistic renderings by Joseph Lindon Smith in the 1930s, including Reza Shah’s 1930s urban reform in Tehran and Mohammad Reza Shah’s 1971 celebration of “the 2,500-year Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great.” This lecture is in connection with the OI Museum Special Exhibition, "Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis Paintings," now on display.
c. 2022, OI

[@Baukereg]

I enjoyed every second of this talk. Thanks!

[@mudgetheexpendable]

Fascinating, and very beautiful, subject. Thank you for a lovely 45 minutes.

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I don't know how I got here, but I thoroughly enjoyed, liked and subscribed

[@davidcaldecoat7414]

Very informative

[@MrArianM]

This lecture had so many "oh btw there is was a berlin-based iranian nationalist movement in the 1910's" moments that i had to pause and order some books

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Sehr kuhl

[@harveyhaines5383]

Out of curiosity, what books did you order?

[@netizencapet]

This talk was way too short. I need her assessments on these iconographic/motivic reappropriations, not simply her review of them...but she wasn't given the time.