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5 décembre 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.inha.92
- eisbn: 9782917902646
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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archéologie historiographie identités politiques Orient Rome universalisme architecture mutations limites spatiales limites temporelles histoire de l’architecture architecture and history architecture time limits space boundaries changes Arts & Humanities Architecture ARC000000 ART015000 AC AMSujets proches
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Talinn Grigor, « Of Aryan Origin(s), Western Canon(s), and Iranian Modernity », Publications de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art, ID : 10.4000/books.inha.92
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From 1901 to his death in 1941, Austrian art historian Josef Strzygowski insisted that the source of Western architecture is to be found in greater Iran. While his theories changed over the decades, along with the alleged origin of “Oriental Aryans,” they had a significant impact on the secularist elite of Iran, who in the 1910s and 1920s appropriated Strzygowski’s ideas in claiming artistic as well as political superiority vis-à-vis the West. Based on his archaeological digs, the German Orie...