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Happiness of people on the day the Shah left Iran, Enghelab and other streets

16 January 1979, printed 2016 | Gelatin silver print

Handbook: Label: Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The ... Happiness of people on the day the Shah left Iran, Enghelab and other streets Portfolio Orig Lang Title: ... Purchased with funds provided by Art of the Middle East: CONTEMPORARY Artwork Accession Number: ...

Courtesans bow to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi during a Salaam ceremony celebrating the 58th anniversary of the Monarch in the Golestan Palace. On the right of the Shah is Amir Abbas Hoveyda, formerly Prime Minister and now Court Minister. On the left of ph

1977, printed 2016 | Gelatin silver print

Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and ... Reza Pahlavi during a Salaam ceremony celebrating the 58th anniversary of the Monarch in the Golestan ... . (30.48 × 40.64 cm) Earliest Date: 1977 Latest Date: 1977 Curator Notes: Following in the tradition of ...

Every Day is Ashura and Every Land is Karbala

1983 | Lithograph

In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los ... family at Karbala. This key event in Shi‘ite history occurred on the tenth day of the month of Muharram, ... or Ashura. At right is a proclamation by Ayatollah Khomeini, issued in the month of Muharram in 1978, ...

At the tomb of Cyrus the Great, celebrations of the 2500th anniversary of the monarchy.

1971, printed 2016 | Gelatin silver print

Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and ... provided by Art of the Middle East: CONTEMPORARY Artwork Accession Number: M.2016.199.4 Location: Not ... currently on public view Artwork Medium: Gelatin silver print Full Title: At the tomb of Cyrus the Great, ...

Rostam in the Dead of Winter

2009 | Inkjet print and mixed media on handmade paper

Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and ... Artwork Medium: Inkjet print and mixed media on handmade paper Full Title: Rostam in the Dead of Winter ... the great champion, in the guise of a wrestler, is shown in a sinister setting replete with ravenous ...

Kaveh, the symbol of liberation for the Iranian people, coming before Zahhak-Hitler and raising his blacksmith’s apron as a banner of rebellion

1942 | Ink on paper

Kings. Munich: Edition Minerva, 2012. Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The ... Artwork Medium: Ink on paper Full Title: Kaveh, the symbol of liberation for the Iranian people, coming ... Julia, and Christoph Rauch, editors. Heroic Times: a Thousand Years of the Persian Book of ...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's portrait is exhibited by the crowd attending the opening of the Tehran university.

1979, printed 2016 | Gelatin silver print

Commentary: Handbook: Label: Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days ... 1979 Curator Notes: In the tumultuous penultimate days of the shah, protests and strikes paralyzed the ... the reopening of Tehran University, two days before the shah left Iran. About The Era: Historical ...

Wrestlers at training, wearing old traditional trousers. The Zourkhaneh (house of strength) was donated by the Shah to Shaabane-bi-mokh (Shaabane the Brainless) to thank him for sending his troops against nationalist leader Mossadegh, during the 1952 coup

1971, printed 2016 | Gelatin silver print

Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles ... Historical Commentary: Handbook: Label: Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of ... prior to the 1979 revolution. It is set in a zurkhana ("house of ...

The arrival of the promised warriors, Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt led by the symbol of Iranian national liberation, Kaveh

1942 | Offset lithograph on paper

Kings. Munich: Edition Minerva, 2012. Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The ... During World War II, as part of an effort to promote popular support for the Allies in Iran, the British ... the chief minister of Nazi propaganda, Goebbels, is represented as Satan, in the guise of ...

At a pro Shah demonstration at the Amjadiyeh Stadium, a supporter puts a banknote with the Shah's portrait to her eye as a sign of allegiance.

1979, printed 2016 | Gelatin silver print

Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles ... Historical Commentary: Handbook: Label: Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of ... the tumultuous penultimate days of Iran’s shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (r. 1941–79), protests and ...

The Combat of Khusraw Parviz and Bahram Chubina, Page from a Manuscript of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdawsi for Shah Isma'il II (r. 1576-77)

circa 1577 | Ink, opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper

Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian ... on paper Full Title: The Combat of Khusraw Parviz and Bahram Chubina, Page from a Manuscript of the ... Curator Notes: This illustrated page from a manuscript of the Iranian national epic, the Shahnama, ...

The Act of Gurdafarid, the Female Warrior

2015 | Cardboard, paper and glue

="https://archive.org/details/women-defining-women">https://archive.org/details/women-defining-women</a> (accessed January 12, 2024). Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of ... Latest Date: 2015 Curator Notes: Gurdafarid is one of just a few heroines depicted in the Iranian ... past and present—in Iran. The horse-headed figure carries a puppet head with the face of Gurdafarid, ...

Ahriman-Goebbels, disguised as Zahhak-Hitler’s cook, causes serpents with the faces of Mussolini and Tojo to grow out of his shoulders

1942 | Offset lithograph on paper

In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los ... Curator Notes: During World War II, as part of an effort to promote popular support for the Allies in ... represented as Satan, in the guise of Zahhak-Hitler’s cook. About The Era: Historical Commentary: Handbook: ...

Men Burning a Portrait of the Shah

1978, printed 2016 | Gelatin silver print

Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian ... December 1978 witnessed the greatest public demonstrations in the history of Iran, in which an estimated ... ten percent of the population protested in the streets against the Shah, as captured in this ...

Amir Hamza the Lover and the Dancing Zebra

1977 | Single-channel video

Label: Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of ... Title: Artwork Inscription: Culture Made: Artwork Date(s): 1977 Artwork Credit Line: Gift of the ... uncannily with her body. The figure of the horned demon who bewitched the princess was based on Amir-Abbas ...

All in Pink

2007 | Dye coupler print

Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian ... Here, Rustam combatting the White Div, the same vignette as in Malekeh Nayiny’s A Ruin from the ... playfulness of both these Nayiny prints only partially conceals an implied darkness—the conquering of one’s ...

Rostam in Wonderland [Five (5) Episodes]

2012-2014 | Single-channel videos

Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in ... struggles with the comically absurd and all-too-realistic trials of everyday life in Iran: inflation, drug ... and producer of the Rostam in Wonderland series, is a multimedia artist and professor at the ...

Untitled, from the series Image of Imagination

2003-2005 | Chromogenic print

In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los ... the present day. At a variety of levels, this juxtaposition suggests an image of continuity in a place ... rediscovered with the passage of time. In the series Image of Imagination, Jalali uses ...

A Ruin from the Past

2007 | Dye coupler print

Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian ... The Paris-based artist Malekeh Nayiny draws upon the great Iranian hero Rustam in a pair of works (see ... specifically regional theme of the Iranian national epic, the Shahnama. In terms of the ...

Shah and the British Ambassador

2014 | Inkjet print

Commentary: Handbook: Label: Bibliographic Entry: Komaroff, Linda. In the Fields of Empty Days ... the artist found supposedly written by Nasir al-Din Shah in a moment of desperation in his dealings ... : The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum ...