{"product_id":"ali-banisadr-isbn-9780847870080","title":"Ali Banisadr","description":"\u003cb\u003eAli Banisadr's first major monograph delves into the Iranian painter's influences and practice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreeminent Iranian-American artist Ali Banisadr's canvases depict a complex swirl of action and abstracted figuration across a stagelike picture plane. Varied histories inform these paintings, ranging from the artist's synesthesia, to Persian miniatures, to the multi-figure works of Brueghel and Bosch, and the gestural imaginations of Willem de Kooning and Max Ernst.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Tehran in 1976, Ali Banisadr grew up during the Islamic revolution and the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. In 1988, he and his family emigrated to Turkey and then to California. In 2000, he moved to New York City where he currently lives and works.\u003cb\u003eNegar Azimi\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and the senior editor of \u003ci\u003eBidoun\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eRobert Hobbs\u003c\/b\u003e, an art historian and curator specializing in twentieth- and twentieth-first century art, is the author of over fifty books and major catalogues on topics ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Earth Art and from Modernism to Post-Modernism. \u003cb\u003eJoe Lin-Hill\u003c\/b\u003e is Deputy Director of the Albright-Knox Museum. \u003cb\u003eJohn Yau \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet and critic who lives in New York. He has published over fifty books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism.","brand":"Rizzoli Electa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305192050917,"sku":"NP9780847870080","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780847870080.jpg?v=1767721224","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ali-banisadr-isbn-9780847870080","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}